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Photographer Matika Wilbur was tired of seeing one-dimensional, insipid, degrading depictions of Native Americans in mainstream media and popular culture. So in 2012, Wilbur, who is of Swinomish and Tulalip descent, decided to create her own catalog of images.
She sold everything in her Seattle apartment and, with Kickstarter backing, headed out on the road, cameras in hand. Her goal: To illustrate Native Americans' diversity and complexity by photographing members of all of the then-562 federally-recognized U.S. tribes.
Ten years, 600,000 miles, and several vehicles later, Wilbur has published her work – portraits and interviews – in a stunning new book: Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America. Over hundreds of pages, we meet Native elders, rappers, professors, artists, activists, linguists, dancers, ranchers, comedians, and more.
"In a lot of ways, this work is narrative correction work," Wilbur said. "When I was talking to folks, I was aiming to understand, 'What are some of the true stories about your people that you want people to know?'"
In her interviews with the people she photographed, they shared stories about the lasting effects of colonization and relocation; about environmental destruction done to Native lands; and about the traumatic experience of those who had been taken from their homes as children and sent to Indian boarding schools to be "assimilated," forced to give up their language and Native identity.
But along with those painful conversations, Wilbur said, she also heard "the best parts: how we've healed from that, and what our people are doing to move forward, and to develop healthy and strong and thriving Indigenous nations."
Wilbur dedicates Project 562 to her daughter Alma Bee, now three years old, with these words:
May your children
hear and breathe
the words of
our Indigenous ancestors.
May we all be so lucky to
know an Indigenous future.
Photos reprinted with permission from Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur © 2023. Photographs by Matika Wilbur © 2023. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
The interview with Matika Wilbur was produced by Michael Levitt and edited by Justine Kenin. contributed to this story
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PHOENIX (AP) — Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on become a decorated World War II flyer who flew over 100 missions in the Pacific and European theaters, has died in Arizona. He was 101.
Darlene Tryon, a close friend and the executor of Holder’s estate, said he died at Friday at a hospital in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. The Pearl Harbor National Memorial also announced the death. Born to a farming family in Gunter, Texas, Holder joined the Navy in 1940 when he was 18.
He was on duty at Ford Island within Oahu’s Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft bombed the U.S. naval base on Dec. 7, 1941.
“The first bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor was about 100 yards from me,” Holder said, adding that he “saw guys swimming through burning oil in the water.”
Holder recalled diving into a ditch to avoid gunfire.
Hunkered down behind a fortress of sandbags, “I wondered if this was the day I would die,” Holder told the Arizona Republic in a 2016 interview. “That morning I watched as Japanese dive bombers devastated Pearl Harbor. I knew that we would no longer sit on the sidelines of the war ravaging Europe.”
Holder said he spent three harrowing days manning a makeshift machine gun pit, a ditch lined with sandbags, in the aftermath of the attack.
About 2,400 servicemen were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack, which launched the U.S. into World War II. The USS Arizona alone lost 1,177 sailors and Marines, nearly half the death toll.
Holder went on to fight in the Battle of Midway and flew missions over Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands before being transferred to England and flying missions along the French coast and the English Channel.
The Pearl Harbor National Memorial said Holder was awarded two distinguished flying cross medals, six air medals, a presidential citation and six commendation medals in his Navy career before being honorably discharged in 1948.
Holder then flew for 25 years as a corporate and commercial pilot, took up golf and moved to an Arizona retirement community. He also became an avid WWII educator and became a regular at Pearl Harbor commemorations and museums and schools, according to Tryon.
In December 2021, a nonprofit company took Holder on an honor flight out of Mesa’s Falcon Field to celebrate his 100th birthday. Asked at the event to tell his secret to a long life, Holder said “good heart exercise and two scotch and sodas every night.”
Tryon said an early April memorial service is planned for Holder in Phoenix and he will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery near the nation’s capital at a later date.
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LONDON (AP) — Two candidates were knocked out of the race to replace U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, leaving six lawmakers battling to lead the Conservative Party and the country.
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi failed to reach the threshold of 30 votes by Conservative lawmakers needed to stay in the contest.
The remaining contenders will now scramble to scoop up the two men’s supporters in a contest that will replace the flamboyant, scandal-ridden Johnson — a figure famous in Britain and around the world — with a new and much lesser-known prime minister.
The 358 Tory lawmakers had crammed into a humid corridor at Parliament on Wednesday afternoon to line up and cast their ballots in a grand room hung with oil paintings. Security staff made them hand over their phones to ensure secrecy.
Eight candidates had secured the required backing of 20 of their colleagues to make the first ballot.
Further rounds of voting will take place Thursday and, if needed, next week, until just two candidates remain.
The final two contenders will face a runoff vote by about 180,000 Conservative Party members across the country. The winner is scheduled to be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become prime minister, without the need for a national election.
Few of the contenders have a high public profile. Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is the bookies’ favorite and received the largest number of votes, 88. He was followed by Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, who is scoring highly in polls of Conservative members, with 67 votes, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, with 50.
Lawmaker Tom Tugendhat, ex-Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch and Attorney General Suella Braverman also remain on the ballot.
The candidates are jostling to replace Johnson, who quit as Conservative leader last week amid a party revolt triggered by months of ethics scandals. He will remain in office as a caretaker prime minister until his replacement as party chief is chosen.
Mordaunt, at her official campaign launch on Wednesday, said the party had “standards and trust to restore” after the scandal-tarnished Johnson years.
She said voters “are fed up with us not delivering, they are fed up with unfulfilled promises and they are fed up with divisive politics.”
The slate of candidates is strikingly diverse, with four contenders from ethnic minorities and four women. But all are offering similar tax-slashing pledges, with only Sunak offering a note of caution. He has cast himself as the candidate of fiscal probity, saying said the country needs “honesty and responsibility, not fairytales” to get through economic shockwaves from the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Supporters of the other candidates have improbably depicted Sunak — whose heroine is former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — as a left-winger. Johnson’s office has denied running a campaign to bad-mouth Sunak, whose resignation last week helped end the prime minister’s reign.
A spokeswoman insisted Johnson was remaining neutral in the campaign to choose his replacement.
Johnson struck a valedictory note at his weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session in the House of Commons. He hinted it could be his last appearance there, though he is scheduled take questions again next week, before Parliament’s summer break, and to leave office on Sept. 6.
“The next leader of my party may be elected by acclamation,” he told Labour leader Keir Starmer – though that would only happen if one of the final two candidates dropped out. “So it’s possible this will be our last confrontation.”
Johnson said it was “true that I leave not at a time of my choosing,” but insisted: “I will be leaving soon with my head held high.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rookie Keegan Murray had season highs of 29 points and 14 rebounds, Domantas Sabonis added his fifth triple-double of the season and the Sacramento Kings beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 118-113 on Friday night for their sixth consecutive win.
Sabonis finished with 18 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds. Murray, the No. 4 pick in the draft from Iowa, became the first Kings rookie to record consecutive double-doubles since the 2018-19 season.
“Keegan surprised me tonight,” Kings coach Mike Brown said. “He had a couple of moves that I’m really impressed with. I can’t wait to go back and watch. He had a couple of moves that I am in love with. I’m glad that he’s starting to show what he is capable of.”
De’Aaron Fox scored 23 points and Kevin Huerter chipped in 14.
The Kings (26-18) have two six-game winning streaks in the same season for the first time since 2002-03 and are third in the Western Conference.
Isaiah Joe knocked down a 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left to cut the Kings’ lead to three before Fox made a layup off an inbound pass.
“The team always runs through the finish line,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “Great competitive level. We played exceptionally hard. …certainly a relevant game we can learn from.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 37 points for the Thunder (22-24), who had won three of four.
Joe finished with 21 points off the bench. Lu Dort and Josh Giddey each scored 15 points.
“The guys fought hard,” Joe said. “We all fought hard. ...we were focused and we fell short to a team that’s been rolling.”
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Thunder: F Jeremiah Robinson-Earl remained out with an ankle sprain and illness.
Kings: Sabonis returned from a one-game absence from a non-COVID illness. …Fox received a technical foul with 7:41 left in the second quarter
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It wasn't long after the Carolina Hurricanes had closed out a second playoff opponent when defenseman Brent Burns began heaping praise on the team's forwards for making it easy for the defensemen to jump into the offense.
One of those forwards, Jesper Fast, sat to his right and couldn't hold back.
“Well,” Fast said, “you make it pretty easy for us as well.”
The Hurricanes weren't supposed to be able to do this: advancing in the playoffs after a series of injuries hit their forward group to sideline some of their most naturally talented goal-scorers. Yet the collective approach has worked so well that the Hurricanes are finding the net more frequently than they did in the regular season despite being down in bodies — and now has them in the Eastern Conference finals.
“It’s really a five-man group,” Burns said after Thursday's 3-2 overtime win in Game 5 to eliminate the New Jersey Devils. "We talk about that. On the nights things are going well for them, it’s because we’re doing certain things. And for our nights when they're going well, it’s because they’re doing certain things.
“We try to be together, we try to stay close and support each other out there. It’s been good.”
The clinching win featured Fast scoring the overtime winner on a deflection after Burns and fellow defenseman Jaccob Slavin scored the two regulation goals. That capped a series in which Carolina had a dozen different players find the net — including three times each from forwards Fast, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Martin Necas and Jordan Martinook — while top star Sebastian Aho scored just once.
Carolina scored 24 goals in the five games against New Jersey, good for a 4.8 per-game average. And going back to a six-game first-round grind against the New York Islanders, Carolina's average scoring is up from 3.20 goals per game in the regular season to 3.64 in the playoffs.
That has all come despite barely having trade acquisition Max Pacioretty on the ice before he suffered another Achilles tear, as well as losing physical top-line forward Andrei Svechnikov to a season-ending knee injury in March. Then there was the loss of another top-liner in Teuvo Teravainen to a broken left hand in Game 2 of the Islanders series, which has left him to slowly make his way back to skating recently with a lengthy absence still expected.
Yet the style of play remains, from the aggressive forecheck to win puck battles to maintaining possession to keep the pressure on in the offensive zone and generate chances.
“I don't know how many teams, you miss a whole top line out would be able to chug along the way we are,” Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. “But it says a lot that these other guys are now getting some credit. If you don't have them, you have no chance.”
Brind'Amour has plenty of examples to point at around his locker room. Fast, who moved back onto the power play ahead of Game 4, shook off a blown open-net putaway in Thursday's first period to deflect Kotkaniemi's shot past Akira Schmid with the man advantage for his second OT winner of the postseason. There's Martinook, who has been on an out-of-nowhere heater and assisted on Slavin's Game 5 goal to give him 10 points in the series after managing just 11 in his first 41 career playoff games.
And the Hurricanes had three series games in which two defensemen scored. That came after a regular season in which Carolina became the first league team since 1992-93 to have multiple defensemen score 18-plus goals.
“We just keep doing what we're doing,” Slavin said. “We like to get pucks to the net as part of our system. So we'll continue to do that. ... We know we have to take care of our end first. If you're playing good defense, you're going to have more opportunities in the offensive zone.”
The Hurricanes' clinching win made them the first team to reach the semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs. They await the winner of the Florida-Toronto series, with the Panthers leading that one 3-1 entering Friday's Game 5, and have home-ice advantage through the rest of the playoffs with Boston's first-round exit following a record-setting regular season.
“I've said many times: We've had some tough losses this year, lost some guys,” Kotkaniemi said. "But I think we still have a great group here in this room. And we're believing in that."
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DALLAS, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Civitas Capital Group, a Dallas-based alternative investment manager offering niche opportunities in U.S. real estate, today announced that alternative investments and capital markets specialist Marc Rucinski has joined the firm as Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets.
In this role, Rucinski will focus on expanding Civitas Capital's equity and debt investor base across the firm's target asset classes including multifamily, lodging, and niche opportunistic investments.
"Marc's hiring is the latest example of Civitas' commitment to institutional-quality investment management," says Heather Jones, Chief Operating Officer for Civitas. "Marc brings deep experience in private equity and real estate capital markets with leading global financial institutions, which marries perfectly with our firm's growth strategy."
Rucinski will split time between Civitas' Dallas headquarters and Los Angeles.
"I'm excited to join a firm as relentlessly creative as Civitas and look forward to supporting the firm's existing and future product and investment strategies" Rucinski says.
Rucinski joins Civitas after a career that spans nearly three decades in which he has executed more than $45 billion in private equity and real estate transactions. This includes experience structuring funds, joint ventures, and co-investments structures for pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, family offices, endowments, and foundations. In addition, Rucinski has significant experience advising public and private executive management teams and company boards on buy and sell side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and financial strategy.
Most recently, Rucinski was head of capital formation and investor relations at Trinity Investments in Los Angeles, where he led efforts to develop new investment products and joint ventures. Prior to that, he held senior positions at Citi Private Bank in Hong Kong and New York; Credit Suisse Securities in New York; Merrill Lynch in New York; and Accenture in Denver, Brussels, Paris, and Nashville.
Rucinski holds a bachelor's degree in Science (Economics and Human & Organizational Development) from Vanderbilt University and a master's degree in business administration from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
ABOUT CIVITAS CAPITAL GROUP
Civitas Capital Group is a nimble alternative investment manager, founded in 2009, offering compelling, niche opportunities in U.S. real estate. Civitas exists to create opportunities that enrich our communities, investors, and employees alike. Driven by relentless creativity, Civitas digs deeper to uncover opportunities that others miss. Follow Civitas Capital Group on LinkedIn. Learn more at civitascapital.com.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Western Yates County in central New York...
Northwestern Steuben County in central New York...
* Until noon EDT.
* At 1121 AM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Hemlock to 10 miles southeast of Portageville,
moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Benton, Urbana, Potter, Wayland, Middlesex, Pulteney, Wheeler,
Italy, Avoca and Arkport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Odell Beckham Jr.’s road from a crumpled figure sprawled out on the Sofi Stadium turf in Los Angeles with a torn ACL in Super Bowl 56 to taking the field for the first time as a Raven was an arduous one, physically and emotionally.
It’s no wonder, then, that the simple act of slipping on a jersey for the start of a mandatory three-day minicamp Tuesday at the team’s facility in Owings Mills struck him as a “meaningful” moment. The 30-year-old former All-Pro missed all of last season with the second major knee injury of his career and was back at the Ravens’ facility for the first time since signing as a free agent in April. It was his first meaningful football action in nearly 500 days.
“I’ve been trying to not think about it because there’s been so many disappointments,” Beckham said. “I’ve been in a good mental head space to where I’ve tried to downplay this, but I think I’ll be excited to put a jersey on and go out and do the thing you’ve done your whole life.”
The workload is not expected to be particularly heavy for Beckham in what are the final offseason practices before Baltimore breaks for the start of training camp in late July.
That was evident once Beckham took the field for the 2 1/2-hour practice. He was in for only a few plays and caught one pass from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Still, Beckham said he feels good about where he is at in the process of his return to full speed after his injury with the Rams in February 2022.
“It feels good to get out of bed and not feel pain,” he said. “It’s been a long journey this time around.”
While he wouldn’t put a percentage on just how good he feels, Beckham smiled and noted that he’s still “definitely fast.”
“I don’t have a set play amount or number that’s in my head,” Beckham said. “You come here, be a pro, you get your reps, get your work, you talk. You don’t always have to build chemistry by taking reps.”
Likewise, Ravens coach John Harbaugh is in no hurry to push when it comes to Beckham’s return to full speed in what will be the receiver’s ninth year in the NFL.
“He’s going to be full go in terms of health, but I also expect us to ramp up a lot of our guys,” Harbaugh said. “We’re not going to be in a hurry to throw guys out there too much [with] too many reps. … It’ll be a see-as-we-go.”
It is only mid-June, after all. Training camp doesn’t begin for another six weeks, and the Ravens’ first regular-season game isn’t until Sept. 10.
But it will be important for Beckham to come up to speed on a new offense and more importantly to develop chemistry with Jackson. He was one of the main reasons Beckham signed with Baltimore, and in turn Jackson signed his five-year extension with the club a few weeks later.
Though Ravens players will head home for the summer after this week, Beckham said he and Jackson plan to work out together in South Florida before training camp.
“Chemistry is going to develop over time,” Beckham said. “The most important thing is getting ready for the season coming up in September.”
It helps, too, that the Ravens’ new offensive coordinator is Todd Monken, who worked with Beckham in the same role with the Cleveland Browns in 2019. That season, Beckham caught 74 passes for 1,035 yards and four touchdowns.
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The language is different now, Beckham said, but conceptually there are similarities that carry over.
His arrival also provides a badly needed jolt to a receiving corps that ranked last in the NFL in yards in three of the past four years and includes largely young and unproven players.
When healthy, Beckham has proved to be one of the league’s better receivers throughout his career. Five times he has topped the 1,000-yard mark, the last of those under Monken. In 2021, his last season on the field, he caught 44 passes for 537 yards and five touchdowns in 14 games for the Browns and Rams.
In that season’s Super Bowl, he was also perhaps on his way to a Most Valuable Player performance with two catches for 52 yards and a touchdown before he went down late in the second quarter. The Rams went on to defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, giving Beckham his first ring, but the experience was a bitter one.
“It’s hard when you get to the pinnacle of success in this sport and feel like it was something that was taken away from you,” Beckham said. “It wasn’t something that was easy to live with. It was very hard to go through that.
“It sucks. I watched plenty of Super Bowls and finally, it was my opportunity and I was so locked in. I could feel it that day when I woke up. … I knew that I was probably going to be the best person on the field that day. I just wanted to have that moment.”
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Fashion Built NYFW, an exclusive product showcase, brought together fashion and architecture on 5th Avenue
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Glen-Gery Corporation, a premier brick and stone manufacturer, partnered with HARMONIA NY, a New York-based fashion brand, to launch its 2023 Brick Styles Catalog, a collection of the trending brick styles and new products for the year. Fashion Built NYFW, an exclusive product showcase, which took place on February 15, 2023 during New York Fashion Week, united fashion and architecture at the Brickworks New York Design Studio on New York City's iconic 5th Avenue.
"We're thrilled to launch our 2023 Brick Styles Catalog during New York Fashion Week, a celebration of the upcoming trends, styles and looks that will evolve from the runways to everyday fashion and now architecture and homes around the world," said Tim Leese, marketing director at Glen-Gery. "The Brick Styles Catalog features a vast collection of stylish, high-end products that are meant to stretch the imagination and unleash design potential. It was only fitting to partner with HARMONIA NY, a fashion brand that is known to inspire and ignite the creative power of self-expression."
During the exhibition, HARMONIA NY showcased 14 high fashion looks inspired by the 2023 Brick Styles Catalog and Glen-Gery's diverse portfolio of designer bricks, which are available in a wide array of colors, sizes and textures, including:
- Pitt Cafe Series - Glen-Gery's inaugural Brick Color of the Year which features a collection of soft, neutral-toned bricks inspired by 2023's nature-inspired color and design trends that embody warmth, coziness and texture.
- Altitude - The newest addition to Glen-Gery's Aviator Series which consists of several distinct monochromatic tone bricks with sharp contrasts that resemble those of early aircraft and aviation equipment.
- Blue Smooth Ironspot - A part of the Sioux City Blues Series, a range of dark blue-black, through-body bricks that makes any modern design a standout project. Varying weather and lighting brings out the inherent luster and sheen in each individual brick.
- True Gray Series - These cool, neutral, gray-toned, through-body color bricks were flawlessly created for those who seek a simple yet edgy aesthetic.
- Emporium+ Series - Natural light will bring out the luster of these lightly coated facebricks, available in wirecut and smooth finishes, and premium colors that add unrivaled quality and sophistication.
- Metallix Series - With its depth of color, the Metallix range reflects light on finished brickwork, creating a satin metallic sheen that glimmers and sparks immediate interest.
- Venetian Glass Brick - A range of brilliant, transparent, colored designer glass bricks inspired by the work of Venetian artisans.
The 2023 Brick Styles Catalog features more than 450 brick products, including 29 new products. To view or order Glen-Gery's 2023 Brick Styles Catalog, visit https://www.glengery.com/2023-style-catalog.
ABOUT GLEN-GERY
Headquartered in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Glen-Gery Corporation is one of the largest brick and stone manufacturers in North America. Since 1890, Glen-Gery has built a reputation for its superior service and high-quality building products that meet both innovative design challenges and demanding construction specifications. Through technology advancements and product innovations, Glen-Gery offers a diverse, premium product portfolio of more than 600 brick and stone products that caters to the high-style needs of today's architects, designers and homeowners. Operating as part of Brickworks North America, Glen-Gery has ten manufacturing facilities, 24 company-owned Supply Centers and three Design Studios, including Philadelphia, Baltimore and the global flagship location in New York City. www.glengery.com
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Stacey Bollinger
sbollinger@planitagency.com
(443) 789-7153
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An effort to return Capitol High School, which has spent 14 years in state control, back to local control took an important step forward Thursday as the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board voted unanimously in favor of the return, subject to the terms already set by the state.
The vote sets up a scheduled Oct. 11 vote by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. A majority of BESE members in June asked for the state Department of Education and the parish school system to come back to the state education board with a return plan for the historic high school.
‘"The commitment we have made is not only bringing Capitol back but to make sure that this school and this community is successful,” said East Baton Rouge Parish Supt. Sito Narcisse.
Narcisse, however, has not offered any new details on what he has in mind since he provided BESE with an update on Aug. 23. Thursday’s School Board agenda included a copy of the presentation Narcisse made Aug. 23.
BESE members have pressed Narcisse with little success for more details about the extent to which the school will be open to traditional students and what facility renovations are in store.
Narcisse has said there’s $24 million that an unnamed private partner is willing to put up to improve or perhaps completely rebuild the dilapidated 62-year-old facility, but has not said who that partner is or what such a partnership would involve. No board member on Thursday asked for any more details.
The motion approved Thursday says the return of the high school would be “subject to stipulations and conditions” proposed by the state education agency.
State Schools Superintendent Cade Brumley has issued a handful of conditions, including his insistence that any return plan he recommends would make certain that “students and children from this community would always have a seat at this school.”
Thursday’s vote was one-sided.
"It’s been a long time since the Lions got to roar in this house and I’m ready to hear it. Go Lions!” said board member Evelyn Ware-Jackson.
Every speaker favored the school’s return, including several Capitol High alumni.
Jack Harrell, a 1981 graduate and a member of the high school’s alumni association, remembered ruefully the unanimous vote in 2008 in which BESE took over the school.
“Since that time we’ve basically been a guinea pig,” Harrell said.
Capitol High, which opened in 1950 and moved in 1960 to its current home at 1000 N. 23rd St., has changed management multiple times since its 2008 takeover.
Currently the school is being run by the Capitol Education Foundation, a nonprofit which has a few graduates as board members. It’s a locally based outgrowth of Friendship Schools, a Washington, D.C.-based charter group which ran the school from 2014 to 2019. The high school currently educates about 370 students from across the parish, though its facility on paper is supposed to be big enough for more than 1,300 students.
A restored Capitol, Harrell said, would mean a feeder school in Park Elementary next door. Park this year began a partnership with Baton Rouge General Medical Center, a partnership which Narcisse has proposed continuing into high school at Capitol High.
Harrell said he likes that proposal.
“We never had any type of program to attract other kids to the school,” he said.
James Finney, a board watcher, said he supports bringing Capitol High back but said the return plan is poorly conceived and needs more work.
"Be sure not to get this administration an inch and have them steal a mile,” Finney said.
Narcisse has promised the school would offer not just medical classes but also offer pathways to jobs in technology as well as liberal arts, which is a catchall for every other profession.
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The 2023 U.S. Open Odds & Preview: Harris English
The U.S. Open is in progress, and after the second round Harris English is in fifth place at -7.
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Harris English Insights
- Over his last 18 rounds, English has finished better than par on nine occasions, while also carding three bogey-free rounds and 11 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded one of the five best scores in five of his last 18 rounds played.
- English has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in five of his last 18 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day seven times.
- English has finished in the top five in one of his past five appearances.
- He has made four cuts in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five appearances, English has finished within five shots of the leader one time and with a better-than-average score twice.
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U.S. Open Insights and Stats
- In English's previous seven appearances in this tournament, he has finished among the top five two times. His average finish has been 37th.
- English has made the cut in each of his last seven trips to this event.
- English finished 61st on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2022.
- This event will take place on a par 70 that registers at 7,423 yards, 164 yards longer than the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- Courses that English has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,292 yards, 131 yards shorter than the 7,423-yard The Los Angeles Country Club this week.
English's Last Time Out
- English was in the 15th percentile on par 3s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, with an average of 3.38 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- His 4.15-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday placed him in the 52nd percentile.
- English was better than 61% of the golfers at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.63 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.72.
- English failed to card a birdie on any of the 16 par-3s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (the other competitors averaged 1.2).
- On the 16 par-3s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, English recorded five bogeys or worse (more than the tournament average of 3.3).
- English carded fewer birdies or better (four) than the field average of 4.5 on the 40 par-4s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday.
- In that most recent competition, English had a bogey or worse on eight of 40 par-4s (the field averaged 8.2).
- English finished The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday carding a birdie or better on seven par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 4.8 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, English bettered the field's average of 1.7 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording one.
U.S. Open Time and Date Info
- Date: June 15-18, 2023
- Course: The Los Angeles Country Club
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Par: 70 / 7,423 yards
- English Odds to Win: +2000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Shutterstock said Tuesday it’s buying Giphy from Meta Platforms for $53 million, the final step to unwind the deal blocked by British regulators, who prevented the Facebook owner from purchasing the GIF-sharing platform over competition concerns.
The stock image service said it’s paying cash for Giphy, which has 1.7 billion daily users and partners including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok and Twitter. Shutterstock said it signed a deal to give Meta continued access to New York-based Giphy’s content across Meta’s platforms.
In a statement, CEO Paul Hennessy said the acquisition will help Shutterstock expand its audience reach “beyond primarily professional marketing and advertising use cases” and “into casual conversations.”
The transaction, set to close in next month, could potentially leave Meta with a big loss.
Meta purchased Giphy in 2020, in a deal reportedly worth $400 million. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority opened an antitrust investigation over concerns it would result in “substantial lessening of competition” in the U.K. market for GIFs, or short looping videos. They’re a popular tool for internet users sending messages or posting on social media.
The country’s competition watchdog ordered Meta to reverse the deal in 2021. Meta appealed but lost, and the U.K. watchdog concluded that “the only way to avoid the significant impact the deal would have on competition” is for Meta to sell Giphy to an approved buyer.
Meta declined to comment further Tuesday on Shutterstock’s acquisition, and directed The Associated Press to an October statement that said it’s disappointed by the U.K. decision but accepts it as the “final word on the matter.”
That statement also said Meta would “continue to evaluate opportunities — including through acquisition — to bring innovation and choice to more people in the UK and around the world.”
The U.K. watchdog found that Meta’s purchase of Giphy would hurt social media users and advertisers by stifling competition for animated images. The watchdog later concluded that the deal would boost traffic to Meta-owned sites, while denying or limiting access for online platforms to Giphy GIFs. It also found that the deal would remove potential competition from the U.K.’s 7 billion pound ($7.9 billion) display advertising market, half of which Meta controls.
CMA blocking Meta’s acquisition of Giphy marked the the first time that the U.K. watchdog had sought to unwind a tech deal. But the move set precedent for similar British regulation across the industry.
Last month, for example, CMA blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard — citing similar concerns that the deal would stifle competition for popular titles like Call of Duty in the fast-growing cloud gaming market.
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No. 2 Alabama is one of the top teams in the country and a favorite to win the national championship.
It is also facing intense scrutiny over three players’ alleged involvement in the deadly shooting of Jamea Harris near campus early on Jan. 15. One-time reserve forward Darius Miles and another man are charged with capital murder.
And while Crimson Tide star Brandon Miller’s name has surfaced in official testimony as a potential witness and as a person who allegedly brought a gun to Miles, he has not been charged — and there’s no indication he will be. Police have said another player, guard Jaden Bradley, also was at the scene.
Despite this week’s new testimony and details in court, Alabama has so far kept up its winning ways. Here is what to know about the case as March Madness approaches.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Miles, who was swiftly dismissed from the team, and Michael Davis face capital murder charges for the shooting death of 23-year-old Harris. Tuscaloosa Police investigator Brandon Culpepper testified Tuesday that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun and that Miles did so. Bradley was also at the scene, police said, and Miller’s and Bradley’s cars blocked the one Harris was in.
An attorney for Miller said his client never handled or saw the gun and wasn’t involved in getting it into the hands of Davis, who is accused of pulling the trigger. Miller’s attorney also said Miller’s car didn’t block the one Harris was in. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Bradley had an attorney.
WHO WAS JAMEA HARRIS?
Harris was from the Birmingham area and a mother of a 5-year-old son. Harris’ mother, DeCarla Heard, told WBRC in Tuscaloosa this week that Jamea Harris was “high-spirited, always the life of the party.”
“She was just always excited to be around family and friends and just have a good time,” Heard said. “She was a great person. She was a great mother to her son.”
Harris was killed early on a Sunday morning on the Strip, a popular student hangout near campus that features bars and restaurants. According to Miller’s attorney, as reported by AL.com, Miles, Davis and Harris were all at a nightclub, and Miles and someone with Harris “apparently exchanged words.”
Harris’ stepfather, Kelvin Heard, told AL.com that “this season is stained in Jamea’s blood … Coach Oats crossed the line (Tuesday). He said they prayed at practice. They weren’t praying for Jamea. They were praying for their own players.”
WHERE DID THE GUN COME FROM?
The gun belonged to Miles and had been left in the back seat of Miller’s car, according to Miller’s attorney. Police say Miles did not fire the shots.
HOW HAS ALABAMA REACTED?
Alabama kicked Miles off the team and removed him from school shortly after the shootings. A day after Miles was charged, coach Nate Oats said the team was going through “kind of a grieving process.”
The university and Oats said Miller is a cooperating witness and isn’t considered a suspect. The school said the decision to keep playing him is “based on all the facts that we have gathered.”
Oats walked back a comment from Tuesday, when he said Miller was in “the wrong place at the wrong time,” and apologized again in Wednesday’s postgame remarks for his choice of words.
“I’m not here to make excuses, but I want to make it clear that I didn’t have the details from the hearing that morning since I was coming straight from practice,” Oats said. “I used a poor choice of words making it appear like I wasn’t taking this tragedy seriously, which we have throughout the course of it. I sincerely apologize for that.”
WILL MILLER FACE CHARGES?
Tuscaloosa’s chief deputy district attorney, Paula Whitley, told AL.com regarding possible charges for Miller: “There’s nothing we could charge him with.”
Birmingham defense attorney Richard Jaffe told The Associated Press that prosecutors would have to prove that Miller knew a crime would occur, and Jaffe hasn’t seen anything to indicate that he had knowledge or intent.
“Without the element of knowledge and intent provable, there’s not really any way legally that he can be held accountable,” said Jaffe, a former Tuscaloosa prosecutor who is not involved in the case. “People cannot be held accountable for someone else’s actions unless they know what they are and intend that criminal activity occur, specifically in this case that a weapon will be used.”
WHAT’S NEXT
The case against Miles and Davis will go to a grand jury for a potential indictment, and their request for bond was denied.
On the court, Alabama is leading the Southeastern Conference and is a likely No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, barring late-season struggles. The SEC Tournament runs March 8-12.
Miller hasn’t missed a beat — or a start — for the Tide, even delivering his best game of the season on Wednesday at South Carolina with a career-high 41 points and the game-winning shot in overtime.
No players have been made available to the media since Tuesday’s testimony that mentioned Miller and Bradley.
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Alfa Romeo revived its GTA badge in 2020 with a pair of hot Giulia sedans limited to 500 units worldwide.
One of those 500 was purchased by Valtteri Bottas, a current driver for the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team.
He naturally went with the more extreme version, the track-focused Giulia GTAm, and on Monday was finally handed the keys at a showroom in Turin, Italy.
“I’m clearly a lifelong car enthusiast but most of all I love the Alfa Romeo brand,” Bottas said in a statement. “It is an honor for me to be an ambassador of the brand and now to become a customer, owner of one of the 500 Giulia GTAs.”
Bottas only joined Alfa Romeo’s F1 team in 2022, after several years at Mercedes-Benz AMG. That means he wasn’t there when Alfa Romeo was developing the Giulia GTA and Giulia GTAm. If he was, he would have had the chance to help develop the cars, a privilege his predecessors, Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi, were able to enjoy.
The cars are based on the Giulia Quadrifoglio and take their inspiration from the Alfa Romeo GTA based on the Giulia sold in the 1960s. The initials are short for Gran Turismo Alleggerita, Italian for “Grand Touring Lightened.”
Both cars feature the twin-turbo 2.9-liter V-6 from the Giulia Quadrifoglio, but with output increased from 505 to 532 hp. Those ponies push 220 pounds less weight than in the Quadrifoglio, allowing for a 0-62 mph dash of 3.6 seconds with launch control. The GTAm version is recognized by its bigger rear wing and stripped-out cabin complete with harnesses and a roll bar.
Alfa Romeo may not be in F1 for long as the team is currently partnered with Sauber, which beginning in 2026 will operate as the factory team of Audi. Alfa Romeo’s deal with Sauber ends after 2023, and the automaker hasn’t said what it plans for its future in F1.
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United Kingdom still negotiating with Taliban for three Brits in custody, including 'danger tourist'
Miles Routledge last posted a message in early March claiming he was in Taliban custody
The British government remains locked in discussions with the Taliban to ensure the safe return of three British nationals, including a "danger tourist."
"If there are risks to people's safety, if they're a British citizen abroad, then the UK government is going to do whatever it takes to ensure that they're safe," Home Secretary Suella Braverman told Sky News earlier this week. "The government is in negotiations and working hard to ensure people's safety is upheld."
"If there are problems and if there are safety concerns to British individuals abroad, then the FCO will be working actively to ensure people are safe," she said when asked directly about negotiations over the three individuals.
YouTube blogger Miles Routledge, charity medic Kevin Cornwell and an unnamed British hotel manager have been arrested and held in prison, the latter two since January while Routledge was allegedly arrested on March 2 alongside two Polish nationals.
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Routledge posted a photo on his subscriber-only Patreon blog and wrote, "Yo guys, been taken by Afghan intelligence for taking like $1000 out of Western Union (sus amount). No internet, no idea when this will send, everything is good but please excuse my lack of communication."
A friend told the Daily Mail that Routledge had also written that he would see "a few days of questioning," but then posted no further message since March 8.
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The friend told the Mail that he was "very worried for Miles" and noted that the messages had posted on March 8 but were time stamped for March 2, making it possible someone had activated his phone at the later date and allowed them to automatically post.
Routledge previously required help from the British government in August 2021 when he was on holiday in Afghanistan and got caught up in the chaos that followed the U.S. military withdrawal.
He luckily managed to make it onto a British Army airlift, but appeared to decide it was worth returning to the country at just one year later.
Scott Richards, who is assisting the other two Brits, told Sky News that he believed they were in good health and treated well, but he admitted he has had "no meaningful contact" and "no access" for international monitoring agencies.
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Cornwell stands accused of having an illegal firearm in the safe he keeps in his room, but his family said he had a license for the weapon. Richards speculated the license may have been overlooked during the search.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday dropped their case against a man who had been suspected of involvement in supplying automatic weapons to Islamic State extremists who went on a bloody rampage in Paris in 2015.
The Public Prosecution Service said in a statement that a lengthy Dutch probe “has not produced sufficient legal and convincing evidence.” They asked for the suspect's acquittal and a court in the port city of Rotterdam granted the request.
The suspect's identity was not released, in line with Dutch privacy guidelines.
A court in Paris convicted 20 men in June for their roles in the attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium that killed 130 people. The only surviving gunman, Salah Abdeslam, was sentenced to life with no chance of parole.
Among those convicted by the French court was a man who had been in contact with the Dutch suspect, the prosecution service in the Netherlands said, but it added that the French judgment showed “that it cannot be determined who supplied the weapons used and who might have been involved.”
The Dutch suspect was released from pretrial detention nearly a year ago. Prosecutors said there were “indications that the man played a mediating role for the delivery of the weapons. But there was never any indication that he knew that these weapons would be used for a terrorist attack.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/dutch-end-probe-into-supply-of-arms-for-2015-17798507.php | 2023-02-22 14:07:15 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/dutch-end-probe-into-supply-of-arms-for-2015-17798507.php |
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Joel Christensen, Brandeis University
(THE CONVERSATION) When the Nobel Prizes are handed out each year, honorees each receive a medal and monetary prize. Even in the absence of these material goods, the honor of being a Nobel laureate persists as part of someone’s name or title, like a heroic epithet to recognize a life’s achievement.
I annually join my colleagues in the arts and sciences praising the winners and everything they have accomplished. As a scholar of classical studies, I also mull over the journey of that strange word, laureate, and how aptly it names those who receive it.
The English word “laureate” dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries, when it jumped almost straight out of the Latin “laureatus,” an adjective to describe someone crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves. But laurel’s history as a symbolically important plant goes back thousands of years.
A useful plant native to the Mediterranean
The laurel plant is one of a number of small bushes and trees found originally in the Mediterranean. Some varieties grow dozens of feet tall, often marked by smooth, sometimes wavy leaves, with berries and flowers of different colors. Many people will recognize the long, green aromatic leaves as bay, a popular spice in a range of cuisines.
The laurel was a useful plant, part of a long tradition of using the gifts of the natural world to treat human ailments.
The Romans had a variety of medicinal uses for the plant. They applied its leaves to snake bites and ingested them as an emetic. They prepared the plant with its berries in various cold remedies.
The Greeks used Laurus nobilis, or “bay laurel,” as a remedy for rashes from other plants and boiled it down for antiseptic and first aid applications.
But the use of crowns crafted from laurel sprigs emerged for different reasons.
A plant linked to Apollo
While “laurus” is the Romans’ word for the cultivated plant, the idea of being crowned or wreathed with laurel likely came first from the Greeks. They associated this plant, which they called “daphne,” with ritual purification and divine inspiration.
Worshippers of the god Apollo held the laurel tree to be sacred, as the location of the god’s oracular statements. In some traditions, the Pythia – the priestess who pronounced oracles at Delphi, one of the most sacred sites in the early Greek world – would chew laurel leaves, potentially to hallucinogenic effect, before delivering a prophecy.
The origin story of Apollo’s love for the laurel tree is more menacing. In the Roman poet Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” Eros – Cupid to the Romans – sought to punish Apollo for mocking him, so he made him become infatuated with a young female nymph, Daphne.
She fled his repeated – and violent – advances, and begged her father, a river god, for help. He transformed his daughter into the laurel tree. Daphne avoided Apollo in her human form, but she could not escape becoming his sacred property.
While this story explains the laurel as Apollo’s sacred plant, its medicinal or imagined mind-altering effects may be better explanations for the tree’s association with Apollo, a god of medicine, prophecy and poetic arts.
Victors wreathed in laurel
The Greeks held the Pythian Games at Delphi every two years after the Olympic Games. By the time they were established in the sixth century B.C. in honor of Apollo, laurel was connected to the god strongly enough to be offered as the prize for victors.
These games, unlike the Olympics, started out with competitions in singing, poetry and dance, and later evolved to include athletic competitions. Laurel’s function as a prize in honor of Apollo and a marker of poetic power is the reason the laureate crown was adopted to honor poets and men of letters in the early Renaissance.
The story of “laureatus” has a few further twists. Ancient Greeks would suspend violent conflicts to hold their annual competitions. This tradition may be the reason the Romans used the Laurus delphica – the laurel tree native to the sacred site of Delphi – as a symbol of peace. They adorned announcements of victory called litterae laureatae (“laureate letters”) with wreaths of laurel.
In higher education, the word “baccalaureate” preserves the meaning of laureate as someone who is honored or who has achieved something. The term is synonymous with a bachelor’s degree, and hails from a medieval Latin word.
The custom of applying the word “laureate” to a Nobel Prize winner, however, may be younger than the prize itself. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the first description of a Nobel honoree in this way happened in 1947.
Despite the phrase’s relative youth, the word’s history lends a deeper meaning to the title. As an ancient symbol of medicine, the arts and the end of war, the laurel certainly fits Nobel’s honoring of achievement in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and that most fragile of hopes, peace.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/whats-a-laureate-a-classicist-explains-the-words-roots-in-ancient-greek-victors-winning-crowns-of-laurel-leaves-191407. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/What-s-a-laureate-A-classicist-explains-the-17478086.php | 2022-09-30 16:23:05 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/What-s-a-laureate-A-classicist-explains-the-17478086.php |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — What started as 10 to 15 attendees, the special needs nightclub in Tucson, Club Zeus, is seeing more than 100 people come to the once-a-month dance party.
Club Zeus had their fourth event on Saturday that included karaoke, a DJ, "mocktails" and even speed dating.
It’s a place to meet new friends and possibly a new love.
“Some of the speed daters actually found matches, and they're going to be going on dates tomorrow,” said Crisann Black, the creator of Club Zeus.
The goal is to provide an inclusive space that welcomes everyone.
“Really creating a ‘we’ environment,” said Black.
Black came up with the idea of Club Zeus when thinking about her son who has autism.
She realized there was a lack of activities for adults with special needs.
“Club Zeus, you know the fact that it's for my son for his future, I see everybody here as my son or my daughter,” said Black.
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Daniel Kaiser is a returner to the party. He said it was his first time experiencing anything like this.
“I'll keep coming back,” said Kaiser.
Kaiser said it’s hard trying to find activities for adults who are handicapped, and he wishes there were more options.
“A lot of handicapped people are just at home doing not much and this, this gives them the opportunity to get out more,” said Kaiser.
Haylee Landwerlen is also a returner.
“My sister, she's got a support coordinator because she's got special needs. The support coordinator told us about it,” said Landwerlen. “The last one was so much fun and it's just a really great place to meet new people,” she added.
A mix of returners but many first timers…
“We have a lot of people, a lot of new faces,” said Sharon Callaway, a volunteer who has helped since the first event.
Club attendees included people in the community who volunteered their time and donated goods to help Black create this environment. The Tucson mom started Club Zeus a couple months ago with everything coming out of her own pocket.
Black said she has no plans on stopping this event and she hopes she can encourage other moms to start something similar.
Since the first time KGUN9 met Crisann Black, she’s heard from people all over the country and even world asking about how she started Club Zeus.
“It just really has drawn a lot of awareness to me that there are so many states that are still lacking in support for people with special needs. I feel like if we can just try to pave that way for other people and other moms to be inspired to do this, that'd be awesome,” said Black.
Crisann Black would like to thank all of the vendors and people in the community who donated their time and products to support Club Zeus.
- Squared Up Pizza
- Vanguard Realty
- Odyssey Services
- DJ Shorty Morris
- DJ Mix Nasty
- Shotz de Salud
- Baking is My Therapy
- The All Abilities Learning Center
- Fancy Floats Creations
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Faith Abercrombie is a reporter for KGUN 9. Before coming to KGUN, Faith worked as a videographer for the Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation and as a reporter and producer on the youth suicide documentary, "Life is..." on Arizona PBS.
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The project marks a key milestone in Family Handyman's sustainability initiatives and brings new meaning to upcycling
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Handyman, a leading and trusted source for DIY home improvements, announced today its Sustainable Shed project with Minnesota based non-profit organization, Dodge Nature Center. The nature center provides environmental and agricultural experiences to thousands of people through public programs, community events, and their nationally recognized preschool program. Family Handyman is building and donating the Sustainable Shed to the nature center's Main Property in West St. Paul, Minnesota. The 14X12 ft structure valued at $50,000 is constructed almost entirely of sustainable building materials including Castelo cork flooring, LP SmartSide siding, mineral wool insulation and salvaged window and door materials.
"Sustainability and community access have always been part of our mission at Dodge Nature Center, this partnership with Family Handyman provides us with new ways to keep that promise," said Jason Sanders, executive director. "With this sustainable structure, we can further our mission to educate the community about agriculture and also further the conversation around sustainability."
The Sustainable Shed will offer educational opportunities to the nature center and its visitors. Family Handyman is documenting the building process to share across their digital, print, and streaming TV platforms to help educate their consumers on the many affordable and attainable alternatives available for sustainable building. Family Handyman has already begun the building process and is slated to reveal the Sustainable Shed later this summer.
"There is a large misconception in the marketplace that sustainable products are all expensive, and hard to find. As part of our larger commitment to sustainability education, we want to help demystify that and empower consumers to find new ways to embrace sustainable living," said Amy Novak, content director at Family Handyman. "We couldn't be more proud to bring the Sustainable Shed to Dodge Nature Center, an organization who has long been delivering on their educational promises and who gives so much to the community in West St. Paul."
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(The Hill) – The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced on Monday that it is launching a campaign to unionize Minor League Baseball players.
“Minor Leaguers represent our game’s future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide,” MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark said in a statement.
“They’re an important part of our fraternity, and we want to help them achieve their goals both on and off the field,” he said.
MLBPA’s campaign, reported earlier by ESPN, garnered the support of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a nonprofit that sought to bring attention to minor league players’ working conditions and wages since early 2020.
Advocates for Minor Leaguers said it will suspend its day-to-day operations until further notice, as each of its staff members resigned to accept a new role at the MLBPA.
“We are thrilled by this development and have no doubt that joining the MLBPA is the best possible outcome for every Minor League player,” the group said in a statement.
The Hill has reached out to the MLB for comment.
Working conditions and wages for players in the minor leagues have garnered attention among lawmakers in recent months as MLB owners in late 2021 voted unanimously to begin a lockout after a contract with MLBPA expired for unionized Major League players.
Soon after the lockout ended in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill that targeted the league’s antitrust exemption.
In late June, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the MLB requesting more information about the league’s antitrust exemption on its minor league players and teams.
“We are grateful to the many people who have spoken up to demand better treatment for Minor Leaguers over the past two years,” Advocates for Minor Leaguers said in its statement.
“Without their courage, passion and advocacy, none of this would have been possible,” the statement continued. “Though there is much work left to be done, one thing is clear: better days lie ahead for Minor League baseball players.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | 2022-08-29 19:53:12 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ |
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – President Joe Biden is spotlighting a major push to save pensions.
The president spoke in front of a crowd of union workers in Ohio on Wednesday, promising retirement security.
“With today’s actions, millions of workers will have the dignified retirement they earned and they deserve,” Biden said.
His team is implementing an American Rescue Plan measure to fund struggling union pension plans. Senior Advisor Gene Sperling says that means millions of workers will get their full retirement benefits at a time when they have been slashed or threatened.
“These workers who’ve devoted 20, 30, 40 years of their life, this will be game-changing,” Sperling said.
There are concerns about how much the pension relief costs and some critics worry it doesn’t address the problems that put pensions at risk in the first place.
Rachel Greszler, a Heritage Foundation Economist, criticized the move.
“The notion that Democrats and the administration are saving these private union pension plans by forcing ordinary Americans to pay for them is just dead wrong,” Greszler said.
She argues the government should reform the system, rather than give it what she sees as a taxpayer-funded bailout.
“Instead of penalizing the bad actors and putting in place rules that will actually fix the system going forward, it is literally handing over tens of billions of dollars to the people that ran those plans into the ground,” Greszler said.
This measure also only funds a portion of pension plans and only lasts until 2051. Greszler believes officials are just kicking the can down the road.
“There will have to be future bailouts if they don’t fix the rules now,” Greszler said.
Sperling agrees the system may need reforms in the future, but says retirees deserve help now.
“Not just letting those folks take a harsh hit when they’ve done nothing but work hard their whole lives,” Sperling said. | https://www.kron4.com/washington-dc/biden-touts-measure-to-rescue-struggling-union-pension-plans/ | 2022-07-07 00:06:21 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/washington-dc/biden-touts-measure-to-rescue-struggling-union-pension-plans/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — For millions of fans of Netflix’s sci-fi drama “Stranger Things,” there’s little mystery in how they spent their Memorial Day weekend.
Netflix released seven new episodes of the show’s much awaited fourth season and said that a record-setting 286 million hours were streamed over the weekend. That’s the biggest premiere ever for an English-language show on the service, beating the 193 hours for the second season of “Bridgerton,” earlier this year.
It’s a welcome dose of good news for Netflix, whose financial troubles have kept business reporters occupied this year.
The fourth season of “Stranger Things” is being released in two chunks, with two more episodes expected in July before the show wraps up with a fifth season.
With long, richly-produced episodes, the new season felt a bit like a throwback to Netflix’s glory days — and that isn’t necessarily a good thing, critic Daniel D’Addario wrote for Variety.
“The show has high ambitions and meets them — but in so doing sacrifices charm and humanity on the altar of looking and feeling expensive,” he wrote.
Others found the new episodes thrilling. The fourth of the seven episodes just offered was “one of the finest hour and seventeen minutes of television I’ve seen in a long time,” culture contributor Erik Kain wrote for Forbes.
“Stranger Things” and a strong performance over the weekend by new episodes of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” on Disney+ show that the two big streamers are effective in building franchises that appeal to passionate fans but also attract new users, said Cole Strain, vice president of measurement products at the research firm Samba TV.
Unlike broadcast and cable television, the streamers don’t offer estimates on how many people are actually watching the shows.
Meanwhile, on broadcast last week, NBC reached nearly 6.4 million viewers for the series finale of “This Is Us,” with the numbers expected to rise through delayed viewing.
CBS led the week in prime time, averaging 3.9 million viewers last week. ABC had 2.9 million, NBC had 2.86 million, Fox had 2.3 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Ion Television had 890,000 and Telemundo had 810,000.
ESPN led the cable networks, averaging 3.4 million viewers last week. Fox News Channel had 2.17 million, TNT had 2.14 million, MSNBC had 992,000 and HGTV had 911,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race with an average of 7.4 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.3 million and the “CBS Evening News” clocked in at 4.6 million.
For the week of May 23-29, the 20 most-watched shows, their networks and viewerships:
1. NBA Playoffs: Boston at Miami (Sunday), ESPN, 9.88 million.
2. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.47 million.
3. NBA Playoffs: Miami at Boston (Friday), ESPN, 7.19 million.
4. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.03 million.
5. NBA Playoffs: Dallas at Golden State (Thursday), Turner, 6.79 million.
6. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.43 million.
7. NBA Playoffs: Boston at Miami (Wednesday), ESPN, 6.42 million.
8. NBA Playoffs: Miami at Boston (Monday), ABC, 6.41 million.
9. “This is Us,” NBC, 6.38 million.
10. NBA Playoffs: Golden State at Dallas (Tuesday), Turner, 6.194 million.
11. “FBI,” CBS, 6.191 million.
12. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.98 million.
13. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.91 million.
14. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.7 million.
15. “NCIS: Hawai’i,” CBS, 5.47 million.
16. “FBI: International,” CBS, 5.32 million.
17. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 5.31 million.
18. Special Report: Biden in Texas, CBS, 5.26 million.
19. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.11 million.
20. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 4.77 million. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/stranger-things-return-encourages-weekend-binging/ | 2022-06-02 17:57:42 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/stranger-things-return-encourages-weekend-binging/ |
"The One Where They Leave In Rachel's Stand-In" might not be an actual Friends episode, but it did happen. Twice.
Almost 20 years after the show went off air, the beloved sitcom has once again gone viral after fans spotted a major editing mistake. In season 9, episode 15 of the show titled "The One With The Mugging," there is a scene where the camera pans to Joey, played by Matt LeBlanc, with what is supposed to be Jennifer Aniston's Rachel standing in the background. Except it's not Jennifer Aniston. It's her stand-in—and half of her face just visible past Joey.
And on top of that, it turns out this isn't the only time this exact mistake was made during the same season.
In the fourth episode of season nine, "The One With The Sharks," Jennifer's stand-in once again makes it into the final cut. Caught by a fan and then shared to Twitter, approximately 12 and a half minutes into the episode, a curly-haired Rachel can be seen at the kitchen table wearing a yellow shirt. When the camera shifts to the table again, Jennifer's straight-haired stand-in has taken her place wearing a blue shirt.
Mistakes aside, Friends' popularity has endured since it ended nearly 20 years ago. And while it may not be joining its fellow sitcoms Will & Grace and Saved by the Bell in seeing a revival, the cast did come together in 2021 for a reunion special.
Friends: The Reunion was an emotional experience for fans and cast alike, with former cast mates Jennifer, Matt, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer walking together down memory lane. But amid the good times, Jennifer was caught off guard by some of the harder emotions that came up while filming the special.
"In your mind you think, 'Oh, this will be really fun to time travel,'" she told Rob Lowe on his podcast Literally! with Rob Lowe in September 2021. "It turns out, ooh, ouch, it's kind of hard to time travel."
As she continued, Jennifer highlighted how surreal it was to see the set, which had "the exact same everything, down to the little tchotchkes on the shelves." But while the set remained the same, Jennifer knew that she and her co-stars had not.
"You know, [in] 16 years, a lot has gone on for each of us," she continued. "And 16 years ago, we were all sort of wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, and sort of had our whole lives ahead of us—even though we were heartbroken to say goodbye to these 10 years and this family and these people and the job we all loved to do." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1377709/this-jennifer-aniston-editing-error-from-a-2003-friends-episode-will-have-you-doing-a-double-take?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-06-20 22:37:06 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1377709/this-jennifer-aniston-editing-error-from-a-2003-friends-episode-will-have-you-doing-a-double-take?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Suspended Atlanta receiver Calvin Ridley is getting a fresh start in Jacksonville, although it’s unclear when he will be allowed to play again.
The Jaguars made a complex deal to land Ridley — and potentially give quarterback Trevor Lawrence a true No. 1 receiver in 2023 — just before the NFL trading deadline Tuesday.
“This is an opportunity to add a proven playmaker to our already talented wide receiver room as we continue to build our roster for 2023 and beyond,” Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. “We are looking forward to finishing strong this season and integrating Calvin into our program at the appropriate time.”
A person with knowledge of the trade said compensation to the Falcons ranges between a second-round pick in 2024 and a sixth-rounder. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details had not been made public.
The draft pick is contingent on when Ridley gets reinstated, how much he plays in 2023 and whether he signs a long-term deal with the Jaguars, the person said.
Ridley tweeted “Duuuval” with two emojis of faces with steam coming from both nostrils, relaying the team’s rallying cry.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Ridley in March for at least the 2022 season after a league investigation determined Ridley bet on NFL games in 2021 while away from the team addressing mental health concerns. The league said the suspension will carry “through at least the conclusion of the 2022 season.”
The NFL said the betting took place during a five-day period in late November 2021. Ridley was placed on the non-football illness list following Week 8 last season, which ended Nov. 1.
Ridley responded on his Twitter account that day, saying “I bet 1500 total I don’t have a gambling problem.”
A league investigation uncovered no evidence inside information was used or that any game was compromised by Ridley’s betting. Nor was there evidence suggesting Falcons coaches, players or staff were aware of Ridley’s betting activity.
“As our team continues its growth, we continue our daily focus on improving our roster and believe this move is the best decision to make at this time,” Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot said.
“We appreciate Calvin’s contributions to the organization and wish him well on his next steps.”
Ridley may petition for reinstatement after Feb. 23, 2023.
The suspension wasn’t the first time Ridley was unavailable to the Falcons. He sat out the final two months of the 2021 season and explained his absence in a Twitter post that read, “I need to step away from football at this time and focus on my mental well being.”
Ridley was Atlanta’s 2018 first-round draft pick from Alabama. He had 90 catches for 1,374 yards and nine touchdowns in 2020. He had only 31 receptions for 281 yards and two touchdowns before sitting out the final two months of the season.
He is scheduled to count $11.1 million against Jacksonville’s salary cap in 2023, which is the final year of his rookie deal.
The Jaguars have Christian Kirk, Zay Jones and Jamal Agnew under contract next season, but the three are considered complementary receivers.
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Students at Massachusetts Pride event destroyed decorations, chanted 'USA are my pronouns,' district says
Some students at Marshall Simonds Middle School destroyed rainbow decorations and disrupted the Pride event
Students at a Boston-area middle school were accused of homophobia and intolerance by education officials after they tore down rainbow decorations and chanted that "U.S.A." was their pronoun during ‘displays of intolerance and homophobia."
Students at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington were invited to wear rainbow-colored clothing on June 2 in celebration of Pride Month, Fox affiliate, Boston 25 News reported.
"On that same day there was a counter-demonstration in response to what should have been a day to celebrate. Students wore red, white and blue clothing, chanted 'my pronouns are USA' and destroyed rainbow decorations at the school," Nancy Bonassera, co-chair of the Burlington Equity Coalition, said during Monday's select board meeting.
"These displays of intolerance and homophobia are unacceptable and impact the whole community," she added.
US EMBASSY TO HOLY SEE FLIES PRIDE FLAG IN ROME
The controversy began when the school's LGBTQ+ student organization invited students to wear the Pride colors and handed out rainbow stickers, the Boston Globe reported.
A letter from school administrators to parents said some students were chanting "U.S.A. are my pronouns" and had intimidated students supporting the event.
"I want to publicly state that I stand in solidarity and support of the members of the LGBTQ community who were impacted by these events," school Principal Cari Perchase wrote in the joint letter with Superintendent Eric Conti. "I am truly sorry that a day meant for you to celebrate your identity turned into a day of intolerance."
CONNECTICUT PARENTS SAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOWED LGBTQ VIDEO WITHOUT PERMISSION
Select Board member Michael Espejo said a "bad light has been cast over our town," CBS Boston reported.
"I was very upset, I've lost sleep over it," Espejo said about the incident. "It kind of shocked me to my core. I didn't think something like that could happen in Burlington."
Gov. Maura Healey, one of the nation’s first two lesbian governors, said she was disappointed by what happened at the school, Boston, 25 News reported.
"I hope it becomes a teaching moment for the young people who were involved in that," Healey said. "It doesn’t represent who we are as a state."
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YouTuber who staged plane crash to take plea deal, prosecutors say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An influencer who staged a California plane crash to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety has agreed to plead guilty to obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.
The plea agreement signed by Trevor Daniel Jacob, 29, of Lompoc, California, and his attorney was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement that Jacob is expected to make a court appearance in coming weeks.
Jacob, an experienced pilot and skydiver, agreed to plead guilty to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The video titled “I Crashed My Airplane” appeared in December 2021 and purported to show Jacob’s small plane have engine failure over the mountainous Los Padres National Forest. Already wearing a parachute, he jumped out with a selfie stick camera in hand.
His jump and the aircraft’s plunge were recorded by cameras mounted on the plane’s wing and tail and by the camera he carried. After landing, he hiked to the crash site and recovered video from the onboard cameras, the government said.
According to the plea agreement, Jacob had a sponsorship deal to promote a company’s product in a video he would post, and he never intended to complete the Nov. 24, 2021, flight.
The Justice Department said Jacob later informed federal investigators about the crash, was told he was responsible for preserving the wreckage, agreed to determine its location — and then lied that he did not know the location.
On Dec. 10, 2021, Jacob and a friend flew to the site in a helicopter that was used to lift the wreckage and fly it to a trailer attached to his pickup truck, according to the agreement. The plane was later cut up, and the parts were disposed of in trash bins.
Jacob’s pilot license was revoked by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2022.
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The battle of WVU alumni went to the favorites.
Jack Elliott and the Philadelphia Union advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals of the MLS Cup Playoffs after knocking off Ray Gaddis and FC Cincinnati 1-0 on Thursday.
Elliott earned the start for the Union and played all 90 minutes. According to Fotmob, the English center-back was one of the best players on the pitch, earning a 7.8 rating as he completed 64 percent of his passes, made 10 clearances and won four of his six aerial duels.
Gaddis did not appear in the match.
This is the first time the two former teammates met in the MLS Cup Playoffs after a lengthy stint together on the Philadelphia Union backline.
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Tiger Woods had fusion surgery on his right ankle Wednesday morning to alleviate arthritis from a broken bone, putting in doubt whether he plays any more majors this year.
Woods disclosed the surgery on Twitter and said it was a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from when he broke his talus bone in February 2021.
“He’s resting now and will start the recovery process,” Mark Steinberg, his agent at Excel Sports, said in a telephone interview.
The surgery took place in New York, and Steinberg said Woods has returned to his home near Jupiter, Florida, to begin rehabilitating.
As for when Woods could return to playing golf, Steinberg said there was “no timetable on this.”
“The first goal is to recover and lead a much more enjoyable day-to-day life,” he said.
Woods shattered multiple bones in his right leg and ankle in February 2021 when the SUV he was driving crashed off a suburban coastal Los Angeles road at about 85 mph and tumbled down the side of a hill. The injuries were so severe, Woods said, that doctors contemplated amputation.
Woods has had multiple surgeries on his leg as a result of the car crash. The ankle has been causing most of the problems of late, including a noticeable limp when he played four of the last five majors, most recently the Masters two weeks ago.
The talus is the second-largest of a group of bones known as the tarsus, which forms the lower part of the ankle joint and transmits the weight of the body from the lower leg to the foot. The subtalar joint allows for side-to-side movement needed for walking, especially on uneven surfaces.
Most estimates put recovery from subtalar fusion at eight to 12 weeks. That would all but rule out the PGA Championship next month — Woods was doubtful, anyway, given it will be at Oak Hill in Rochester, New York, with likely cold temperatures.
The U.S. Open is June 15-18 at Los Angeles Country Club, and the British Open is in three months (July 20-23) at Royal Liverpool in England.
Woods made an improbable return 14 months after the car crash to play in the Masters and walked 72 holes. Remarkably, he has missed only one cut — the British Open at St. Andrews last summer — although he withdrew after three rounds of the PGA Championship last year and he withdrew this year in the middle of the third round of the rain-delayed Masters.
Woods cited plantar fasciitis for his withdrawal from the Masters, where he tied the record by making his 23rd cut. Plantar fasciitis also was cited when he had to withdraw from his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in December, which he said was caused by working too much to get ready to play.
Jason Day said at the Masters that Woods told him the reason for his withdrawal from the PGA Championship last year “was a screw went through the skin.”
Woods previously had five surgeries on his back. That included fusion surgery on his lower spine that allowed him to return to play. He won the Tour Championship in 2018, the Masters in 2019 for his 15th major championship and the Zozo Championship in Japan in the fall of 2019 for his 82nd career PGA Tour title, tying the career record of Sam Snead.
He has said in numerous interviews that hitting shots is not the problem, it’s walking to the next one. Woods also has said his schedule would be limited to the majors and maybe a few others, such as the 36-hole PNC Championship with his son in which he can ride in a cart.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. She died at my side.
I could barely whisper, “Please help us.”
Our driver raced us to a small local hospital in Khost, siren on. I tried to stay calm. At the hospital, Dr. Abdul Majid Mangal said he would have to operate and tried to reassure me. His words are forever etched in my heart: “Please know your life is as important to me as it is to you.”
Much later, as I recovered in New York during a process that would turn out to eventually require 18 operations, an Afghan friend called from Kabul to apologize for the shooting on behalf of all Afghans.
I said the shooter didn’t represent a nation, a people. For me, it was Dr. Mangal who represented Afghanistan and Afghans.
I have reported on Afghanistan for The AP for the past 35 years, during an extraordinary series of events and regime changes. Through it all, the kindness and resilience of ordinary Afghans has shone through – which is also what has made it so painful to watch the slow erosion of their hope.
I have always been amazed at how Afghans stubbornly hung on to hope against all odds. But by 2018, a Gallup poll showed that the fraction of people in Afghanistan with hope in the future was the lowest ever recorded anywhere.
I arrived in Afghanistan in 1986, in the middle of the cold war. It seems a lifetime ago. It is.
Then, the enemy attacking Afghanistan was the communist former Soviet Union, dubbed godless by United States President Ronald Reagan. The defenders were the U.S.-backed religious mujahedeen, defined as those who engage in holy war, championed by Reagan as freedom fighters.
At that time, the god versus communism message was strong. The University of Nebraska even crafted an anti-communist curriculum to teach English to the millions of Afghan refugees living in camps in neighboring Pakistan. The university made the alphabet simple: J was for Jihad or holy war against the communists; K was for the Kalashnikov guns used in jihad, and I was for Infidel, which described the communists themselves.
There was even a math program. The questions went something like: If there were 10 communists and you killed 5, how many would you have left?
When I covered the mujahedeen, I spent a lot of time and effort on being stronger, walking longer, climbing harder and faster. At one point, I ran out of a dirty mud hut with them and hid under a nearby cluster of trees. Just minutes later, Russian helicopter gunships flew low, strafed the trees and all but destroyed the hut.
The Russians withdrew in 1989 without a win. In 1992, the mujahedeen took power. But it wasn’t long before the mujahedeen turned their guns on each other.
Thrice the AP lost its equipment to thieving warlords, only to be returned after negotiations with the top warlord. One day I counted as many as 200 incoming and outgoing rockets inside of minutes.
The bloodletting of the mujahedeen-cum government ministers-cum warlords killed upward of 50,000 people. I saw a 5-year-old girl killed by a rocket as she stepped out of her house.
Despite the chaos of the time, Afghans still had hope.
In the waning days of the warring mujahedeen’s rule, I attended a wedding in Kabul where both the wedding party and guests were coiffed and downright glamorous. When asked how she managed to look so good with so little amidst the relentless rocketing, one young woman replied brightly, “We’re not dead yet!”
The wedding was delayed twice because of rockets.
By mid-1996, the Taliban were on Kabul’s doorstep, with their promise of burqas for women and beards for men. As international sanctions crippled Afghanistan, one-eyed Taliban Mullah Mohammad Omar got closer to Al-Qaida, until eventually the terrorist group became the Taliban’s only source of income.
Then came the seismic shock of 9/11.
Many Afghans mourned the American deaths so far away. Few even knew who Osama bin Laden was. But the country was now squarely a target in the eyes of the United States. Amir Shah, AP’s longtime correspondent, summed up what most Afghans were thinking at the time: “America will set Afghanistan on fire.”
And it did.
I was the only western journalist to see the last weeks of Taliban rule. The U.S.-led coalition assault began on Oct. 7, 2001. The powerful B-52 bombers of the U.S. pounded the hills and even landed in the city.
On Nov. 12 that year, a 2,000-pound bomb landed on a house near the AP office. It threw me across the room and blew out window and door frames. Glass shattered and sprayed everywhere.
By sunrise the next day, the Taliban were gone from Kabul.
Afghanistan’s next set of rulers marched into the city: The mujahedeen were back.
The U.S. and U.N returned them to power even though some among them had brought bin Laden from Sudan to Afghanistan in 1996, promising him a safe haven. The hope of Afghans went through the roof, because they believed the powerful U.S. would help them keep the mujahedeen in check.
Yet worrying signs began to emerge. The revenge killings began, and the U.S.-led coalition sometimes participated without knowing the details. The mujahedeen would falsely identify enemies – even those who had worked with the U.S. before – as belonging to al-Qaida or to the Taliban.
In the meantime, corruption seemed to reach epic proportions, with suitcases of money, often from the CIA, handed off to Washington’s Afghan allies. Yet schools were built, roads were reconstructed and a new generation of Afghans, at least in the cities, grew up with freedoms their parents had not known and in many cases looked on with suspicion.
Then came the shooting that would change my life.
It was two years before I was able to return to work and to Afghanistan.
By that point, the disappointment and disenchantment with America’s longest war had already set in. Despite the U.S. spending over $148 billion on development alone over 20 years, the percentage of Afghans barely surviving at the poverty level was increasing yearly.
In 2020, the U.S. and the Taliban signed a deal for troops to withdraw within 18 months.
It was the sudden and secret departure of President Ashraf Ghani that finally brought the Taliban back into the city on Aug. 15. The Taliban’s rapid march toward Kabul fed a rush toward the airport. For many in the Afghan capital, the only hope left lay only in getting out.
Now the future in Afghanistan is even more uncertain. Scores of people line up outside the banks to try to get their money out. Hospitals are short of medicine. Afghans are left to face the fact that the entire world came to their country in 2001 and spent billions, and still couldn’t bring them prosperity or even the beginnings of prosperity.
I leave Afghanistan with mixed feelings, sad to see how its hope has been destroyed but still deeply moved by its 38 million people.
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‘Black Adam’ features Dwayne Johnson in new chapter for DC Extended Universe
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
A new trailer for “Black Adam” hints at a switch up for Dwayne Johnson’s character.
The DC comic movie also costars Viola Davis, Pierce Brosnan and Aldis Hodge. Johnson plays Teth Adam, who In ancient Kahndaq “was bestowed the almighty powers of the gods. After using these powers for vengeance, he was imprisoned, becoming Black Adam.”
“Nearly 5,000 years have passed and Black Adam has gone from man, to myth, to legend,” the description on the trailer reads. “Now released, his unique form of justice, born out of rage, is challenged by modern day heroes who form the Justice Society: Hawkman, Dr. Fate, Atom Smasher and Cyclone.”
But is Black Adam a villain or a super hero?
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Injured Utah little leaguer recovering, has call with coach
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — A Little League World Series player who seriously injured his head when he fell out of his top bunk in dorms at the world series complex has FaceTimed with his coach and continues to improve, the coach said Friday.
Mark Ence, the manager for Snow Canyon, Utah, said he told his 12-year-old player, Easton Oliverson, that he loved him and Easton said he loved the coach back.
“It was great to hear his voice,” Ence said.
Easton has been recovering in the hospital since the accident Monday. His MRI on Wednesday night came back normal, he has begun walking and walked to the bathroom on his own Friday morning, Ence said.
“I’m not familiar with the recovery process of that sort of injury,” Ence said. “But he definitely is improving and the family wanted to let everyone know that they are grateful for the thoughts and prayers and they feel like the prayers are working.”
Ence spoke with reporters hours before Utah, representing the Mountain Region, played its first game of the tournament against Tennessee from the Southeast Region.
With Easton’s condition improving so quickly, his father, Jace will be back in the dugout to resume his role as an assistant coach. In addition, Easton’s brother Brogan was added to the team’s roster.
“You’re allowed to have 14 on a roster,” Ence said. “We had 13 and we were able to get Easton’s little brother Brogan to come and be with our team, so he arrived yesterday. The family is extremely excited. I think it’s going to be huge for the family in terms of the healing process to have Brogan be there.”
The coaching staff and parents have worked to keep the players’ attention on the upcoming games and enjoying the Little League World Series experience.
“Being kids they bounce back pretty quick. They’ve enjoyed it here and stayed busy,” Ence said. “It’s definitely been more stressful for the parents, but the kids are doing great.”
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Jake Starr is a journalism student at Penn State.
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A hectic start to the NHL’s free-agency period Wednesday closed with the Columbus Blue Jackets landing the highest-profile player: “Johnny Hockey.”
Johnny Gaudreau cashed in on a career season by signing a $68.25 million, seven-year contract with Columbus in the Blue Jackets’ bid to return to prominence after losing their core of stars — including Artemi Panarin — in free agency two years ago.
Gaudreau’s decision to sign with Columbus came a day after turning down what an eight-year deal to re-sign with Calgary, where he spent his first nine NHL seasons. The Blue Jackets also signed defenseman Erik Gudbranson to a four-year, $16 million contract.
“Johnny Gaudreau is a superstar in the National Hockey League, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome him,” general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said. “He is an elite player with great character that makes the players around him better.”
The 28-year-old who played at Boston College finished tied for second in the NHL with a career-best 115 points and 40 goals last season. And so much for the speculation of Gaudreau, who is from New Jersey, heading to a team much closer to home such as the Devils, Philadelphia Flyers or New York Islanders.
Gaudreau’s signing highlighted a busy day in which Claude Giroux looked ahead to a homecoming in Ottawa, the Washington Capitals landed Stanley Cup-winning goalie Darcy Kuemper and the New York Rangers spent big on center Vincent Trocheck, Jaromir Jagr — remember him? — even wondered whether he could get in on the action.
In a message to NHL GMs on Twitter, Jagr wrote that he is a little slow at 50 but has strong hands, before closing his note with “Call me anytime,” followed by a winking emoji.
With all the moves and all the money being thrown around in the opening hours of free agency, it would hard to blame Jagr for joking about the possibility of returning for a 25th NHL season.
The slight, $1 million rise of the NHL salary cap to $82.5 million, coupled with numerous teams dumping or buying out contracts to free up payroll space, led to a rush of action once teams were allowed to begin signing players.
“It was a little bit expected because teams have had time to recover from the COVID pandemic,” said defenseman Ben Chiarot, who signed a $19 million, four-year contract with Detroit. “Players thought it would be better than in past years because teams are operating at a normal clip.”
The Red Wings were among the busier teams in general manager Steve Yzerman’s bid to end a six-year playoff drought. Detroit also signed center Andrew Copp to a $28.125, five-year contract, and forwards David Perron and Dominik Kubalik two two-year deals.
Washington GM Brian MacLellan took particular notice of the Red Wings being one of the teams with cap space that capitalized on it.
“Detroit was really busy,” MacLellan said with a laugh. “It went real quick. I think you add another team and you got 32 teams competing for guys, it’s a competitive environment.”
The Capitals signed Kuemper to a $26.25 million, five-year contract. Kuemper, who had a career-best 37 wins last season, takes over after the Capitals moved on from llya Samsonov by not issuing him a qualifying offer and traded Vitek Vanecek to New Jersey.
Colorado also bid farewell to forward Andre Burakovsky, who signed a $27.5 million contract with the Seattle Kraken. The defending champions did re-sign forward Artturi Lehkonen and defenseman Josh Manson to long-term contracts.
The Carolina Hurricanes completed two trades by first acquiring 2017 Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Brent Burns in a deal with San Jose. Carolina then took advantage of the salary cap-strapped Vegas Golden Knights by acquiring forward Max Pacioretty and defenseman Dylan Coghlan in a trade for future considerations.
The move freed up the final year of Pacioretty’s contract, and the $7 million salary cap hit it represented, from Vegas’ payroll.
With Gaudreau off the market, forward Nazem Kadri and defenseman John Klingberg, were the top players still available through Wednesday evening.
Giroux’s signing in Ottawa was expected: General manager Pierre Dorion joked he couldn’t escape Senators fans asking: “When are you signing Claude?” Giroux, who played his junior hockey across the river from Ottawa in Gatineau, Quebec, signed a $19.5 million, three-year contract.
The 34-year-old Giroux brings veteran leadership to Ottawa’s mix of youngsters. He spent his first 14-plus seasons in Philadelphia, where he served as the Flyers captain, before being traded to Florida in March.
“I wouldn’t sign here if I didn’t think we had a chance to win the Cup,” Giroux said. “I’m not saying we’re going to win the Cup this year, but the plan is to build on it and have baby steps for that.”
Trocheck signed a $39.375 million, seven-year contract with the Rangers following Copp’s departure. The 29-year-old Trocheck has nine seasons of NHL experience, including two-plus years in Carolina, where he had 39 goals and 96 points in 135 games with the Hurricanes.
Trocheck is reunited with Rangers coach Gerard Gallant after the two were together in Florida.
“This was one of just a few teams that we really looked at and thought it was a good fit. So coming in, we knew that New York was probably our number one choice,” he said.
Besides Kuemper, the offseason-long goalie carousel saw Jack Campbell leave Toronto for a five-year, $25 million contract with Edmonton. Campbell cashed in after a season in which he had career highs in wins with a 31-9-6 record, five shutouts and 47 starts.
The Oilers are retooling after veteran Mike Smith’s playoff inconsistencies contributed to the Oilers being outscored 22-13 in a sweep by Colorado in the Western Conference Final.
The Chicago Blackhawks finally began adding talent by signing six players, including forwards Andreas Athanasiou and Max Domi to one-year, $3 million contracts. The Blackhawks are in a full rebuild after trading center Kirby Dach to Montreal and forward Alex DeBrincat to Ottawa and watching Kubalik leave for Detroit.
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AP Hockey Writer Larry Lage and AP freelance writer Denis Gorman contributed.
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ: YY) ("JOYY" or the "Company", formerly known as YY Inc.), a global video-based social media company, announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2022.
JOYY's total revenues in the second quarter of 2022 were US$596.1 million, with BIGO's revenues reaching US$502.6 million. In the second quarter of 2022, JOYY's non-GAAP net income[1] (excluding YY Live) was US$51.5 million with a corresponding non-GAAP net income margin[1] of 8.6% (compared to -0.1% in the corresponding period in 2021). BIGO generated US$86.3 million in net income with a corresponding net income margin of 17.2% (compared to 3.3% in the corresponding period in 2021). In the second quarter of 2022, JOYY recorded positive net operating cash flow of US$61.7 million.
David Xueling Li, Chairman and CEO of JOYY, commented, "The steady expansion in our profitability in the second quarter amidst current market conditions demonstrated improved efficiency and resilience of our business. We saw positive outcomes from continued iteration of our product features and cultivation of our user community, as Bigo Live's MAU maintained its solid growth momentum, increasing by 10.6% year over year to 32.6 million. The current macro environment has not undermined our proven capabilities in capturing growth potential in the social entertainment sector nor our long-term outlook on the industry. We view the current market fluctuations as opportunities to deepen our focus and plan for the future. By continuing to cultivate diversified, premium content, innovate interactive features, and organize tailored local activities, we will further improve our user experience, and ultimately drive the growth of our user community and global business. We remain committed to generating value for our users and creators while improving efficiency and enhancing resilience. As we continue to invest in building our long-term capabilities, we firmly believe that JOYY will emerge from the current uncertainties as a more focused and productive company, and be well positioned to capture long-term growth and generate sustainable shareholder value."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were US$596.1 million.
- Net income from continuing operations attributable to controlling interest of JOYY for the second quarter of 2022 were US$18.7 million, compared with net loss of US$109.3 million in the second quarter of 2021. Net income margin for the second quarter of 2022 was 3.1%, compared with net loss margin of 16.5% in the second quarter of 2021.
- Non-GAAP net income[1] from continuing operations attributable to controlling interest and common shareholders of JOYY for the second quarter of 2022 was US$51.5 million, compared to non-GAAP net loss of US$0.5 million in the second quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net income margin[1] for the second quarter of 2022 was 8.6%, compared to non-GAAP net loss margin of 0.1% in the second quarter of 2021.
- As of June 30, 2022, JOYY had cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and cash equivalents, short-term deposits, restricted short-term deposits and short-term investments of US$4,289.2 million. For the second quarter of 2022, net cash inflow from operating activities was US$61.7 million.
Second Quarter 2022 Business Highlights
Bigo Live
Bigo Live continued to focus on the innovation of product features and effective local operations. In the second quarter, Bigo Live's MAU grew by 10.6% year over year to 32.6 million, with its MAU in Southeast Asia and other regions increasing by 18.6%, and MAU in Europe increasing by 8.7%. To help users in the Middle East and certain Southeast Asian countries celebrate their Ramadan holiday, Bigo Live launched a series of live events tailored to local traditions, including cooking sessions, quiz shows, and singing contests, and invited local celebrities and influencers to demonstrate the unique cultural traditions of their regions. Bigo Live's new "Community" feature, which was launched last quarter, continued to contribute to content diversification and user engagement improvements in the BAR channel. BAR's average views per user and the volume of video content sequentially increased by 14.1% and 7.3%, respectively. Bigo Live also upgraded its "Virtual Live" feature to enable a trendier livestreaming experience for its users, driving up the number of users and cumulative time spent on Virtual Live sessions substantially compared to the previous quarter.
Likee
In mid-June, Likee launched a new feature called "Loop" in the U.S. and Europe. Loop is a community feature that connects users with similar interests. Shortly after Loop was launched, the anime community had shared more than 6 million episodes of video content, and over 50% of the users in the anime community were following one another. Likee also achieved steady improvements in user engagement and stickiness, with the average time spent on Likee per user increasing sequentially by 10.2% globally and by 22.7% in the regions where Loop was introduced. During the second quarter, in addition to launching a variety of localized campaigns, Likee partnered with four charities in the Middle East and South Asia to launch a cross-regional donation campaign. More than 200,000 users participated in the "Ramadan" campaign by logging in to Likee and collecting "energy points", which were later converted into monetary donations made by Likee through local charities.
Hago
In the second quarter, Hago's livestreaming revenue increased by 7.1% year over year, and its number of paying users grew by 12.8% over the same period. As Hago continued to optimize its content recommendation algorithm, user engagement improved, as evidenced by a sequential increase in its featured channel penetration rate of 1.8%. During the quarter, Hago focused on updating its newly launched "3D Hago space" feature. Hago introduced more localized makeup, costumes, and accessories, enabling users to customize their 3D avatars according to their personal and cultural preferences. Additional interactive items and 3D virtual scenes were also launched, both of which were well received by Hago users, boosting Hago Space's next-day user retention rate by 14.9% on a quarter-over-quarter basis.
About JOYY Inc.
JOYY is a leading global social media company that enables users to interact with each other in real time through online live media. On a mission to connect people and enrich their lives through video, JOYY currently operates several social products, including Bigo Live for livestreaming, Likee for short-form videos, Hago for multiplayer social networking, an instant messaging product, and others. The Company has created a highly engaging and vibrant user community for users across the globe. JOYY was listed on the NASDAQ in November 2012.
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[1]. For details of the non-GAAP measures, including the reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures, please refer to the press release titled "JOYY Reports Second Quarter 2022 Unaudited Financial Results" issued by the Company on August 30, 2022.
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By MARC LEVY and LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, released a doctor’s note Wednesday saying he is recovering well from a May stroke as he vies for an open seat in a bare-knuckle campaign against Republican rival Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has questioned Fetterman’s fitness to serve.
Five months after the medical emergency from which Fetterman said, “I almost died,” he is fighting some lingering effects of the stroke — “the elephant in the room,” he called it at a recent rally. He uses closed-captioning to quickly interpret and respond to questions, and sometimes stumbles over words.
In the one-page letter, Dr. Clifford Chen noted that Fetterman, the lieutenant governor, continues to endure effects of the stroke that involve speech and being able to respond quickly. But he said Fetterman exhibited no effects on his “cognitive ability” or his ability to think and reason after the stroke, which occurred just days before the primary election.
Fetterman, 53, “is recovering well from his stroke and his health has continued to improve,” Chen wrote after examining Fetterman on Friday.
Chen, a primary care physician in Duquesne affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, concluded that Fetterman “has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office.”
With less than three weeks before the Nov. 8 election, Fetterman is trying to counter Oz’s relentless attacks on his health while also acknowledging, going into their Tuesday debate, that his recovery is not complete. The race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey is one of the most closely watched and could determine party control of the Senate.
Fetterman has declined to release a fuller suite of his medical records or provide access by reporters to his doctors or specialists.
Still, some independent experts on strokes who were consulted by The Associated Press before Fetterman released Chen’s note said the candidate appears to be recovering remarkably well — and they are optimistic that he will continue to get even better.
“Someone who is speaking and moving and looking the way he does has a very good long-term prognosis,” said Dr. Alexandre Carter of Washington University in St. Louis, who specializes in neurologic rehabilitation.
Carter said it is hard to assess how rapidly Fetterman is recovering because certain basic details, including the stroke’s severity, what part of the brain was affected or how serious his earlier symptoms were, have not been made public.
Carter, who examined videos of Fetterman with voters and being interviewed, said campaigning was “a great stress test for his ability to do the job.”
Strokes often leave one side of the body weak or even partially paralyzed, but Carter saw no sign that Fetterman has trouble walking or favors one side, and he does not use a cane.
Despite Fetterman’s language-related difficulties, “he’s speaking quite well. His speech is fluent. He knows what he wants to say. Most of the time it comes out perfectly clear,” Carter added.
Fetterman had the stroke just days before winning the Democratic primary. It kept him from campaigning for much of the summer and, when he returned, the state of his recovery was on full display.
Oz, a heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity who has treated stroke patients, has accused Fetterman of lying about his health and suggested that the stroke has left Fetterman unequipped to serve effectively in the Senate.
Fetterman’s critics seized on the candidate’s struggles to understand speech, also known as an auditory processing disorder, after his in-person interview with NBC News this month.
Fetterman had used closed-captioning in interviews going back to July. But for the first time, NBC News’ cameras showed Fetterman reading an interviewer’s questions off his computer monitor before he responded.
An auditory processing difficulty does not mean someone has trouble hearing — it’s about how quickly and accurately the brain’s language network turns sound into meaning, said Brooke Hatfield of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
There are different types, but generally “the brain needs to kind of reroute itself” to decode speech signals after a stroke, said Hatfield, a speech pathologist who has worked extensively with stroke patients. Responding to speech “is asking the brain to work really fast. Somebody who’s recovering, their brain might need just a little more time to make those connections.”
Fetterman’s use of the closed-captioning system “implies to me that he’s got a very strong visual system — he can read information more easily than he can hear it and process it,” Hatfield said, adding that it is a tool much like wearing glasses.
About 20% of stroke survivors experience some type of auditory processing difficulty, said Dr. Babu Welch, a brain surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Improvement takes time, speech therapy and practice.
Chen said in his note that Fetterman has significantly improved after working with a speech therapist.
Welch said that he could not comment specifically on Fetterman’s progress but that someone who “appears to be doing pretty well in October from a May stroke, that’s pretty good. That usually suggests there’s going to be continued improvement.”
Problems with auditory processing do not mean someone also has cognitive problems, the experts agreed. The brain’s language network is different from regions involved in decision making and critical thinking.
“Just because you have a disability doesn’t mean that you’re cognitively impaired,” Carter said. He is baffled by controversy over Fetterman’s use of closed-captioning, saying, “People who have significant comprehension problems or cognitive problems, captioning’s not going to help them.” Fetterman will use closed-captioning in the debate.
Questions about Fetterman’s condition had swirled for weeks after the stroke, fueled at least in part by the campaign’s initial limited disclosures about the episode and later by Oz’s questions about Fetterman’s absence from campaigning for much of the summer and his refusal to engage in more than one debate.
Fetterman’s campaign first revealed the stroke on May 15, two days after he was hospitalized, and said it was caused by a condition called atrial fibrillation. Fetterman later acknowledged that his cardiologist said he could have avoided the stroke had he taken prescribed blood thinners. Fetterman said he thought — wrongly — that losing weight and exercising would be enough.
The campaign did not release key additional details for two more weeks.
Doctors implanted a pacemaker for the atrial fibrillation, along with a defibrillator that turned out to be a precaution for a different and more serious condition called cardiomyopathy. The defibrillator can deliver corrective shocks if it senses the weakened and enlarged heart muscle has fallen into a life-threatening irregular rhythm.
In a letter made public in June, Dr. Ramesh Chandra, Fetterman’s cardiologist, said the candidate would be fine and able to serve in the Senate if he ate healthy foods, stuck with his medication and exercised. Chen’s letter said Fetterman was doing that, noting that he can walk 4 miles to 5 miles without difficulty.
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South Africa police say 15 killed in bar shooting in Soweto
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto township has killed 15 people and left others in critical condition, according to police.
Police say they are investigating reports that a group of men arrived in a minibus taxi and opened fire on some of the patrons at the bar shortly after midnight Sunday.
Those injured have been taken to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
The number of cartridges found on the scene indicates that a group of people opened fire in the bar, said Gauteng province police commissioner Lt. Gen. Elias Mawela.
“The primary investigation suggests that these people were enjoying themselves here, in a licensed tavern operating within the right hours,” Mawela told The Associated Press.
“All of a sudden they heard some gunshots, that is when people tried to run out of the tavern. We don’t have the full details at the moment of what is the motive, and why they were targeting these people,” he said.
“You can see that a high caliber firearm was used and it was shooting randomly. You can see that every one of those people were struggling to get out of the tavern,” Mawela told The Associated Press.
The area where the shooting took place was very dark, making it harder to find people who could identify the suspects, he said.
Rifles and a 9 mm pistol were used in the attack, said national police spokeswoman Col. Dimakatso Sello.
In a separate incident, four people were shot dead by unknown gunmen at a tavern in Sweetwaters township in the coastal city of Pietermaritzburg on Saturday night.
According to the police, two men entered the tavern and randomly opened fire on the patrons, killing two people on the scene while two others were confirmed dead at the hospital. Police said 8 other people are receiving treatment in a hospital. The deceased were aged between 30 and 45 and police are investigating charges of murder and attempted murder, police said.
“The team will be working around the clock to track down and bring to book those responsible for this shooting”, said Kwazulu-Natal police commissioner Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
The bar shootings come two weeks after 21 teenagers were found dead in a tavern in the city of East London. The cause of those deaths has not yet been announced by authorities, but the teens were not shot nor crushed in a stampede, according to officials.
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Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a high-ranking adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and left Russia shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, was reported to be in intensive care in a European hospital on Sunday for a neurological disorder.
Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian television personality and family friend of Chubais, said on Telegram that she had spoken with his wife, Avdotya, and that he was suffering from Guillain-Barre syndrome. She did not say which clinic he was in.
Guillain-Barre is a rare disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves. Sobchak said Chubais’ condition was “unstable,” but she quoted him as saying it was “moderate, stable.”
Although Chubais did not state his reason for resigning in March, it was presumed to be because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
His was the highest-level of a series of official resignations. Chubais had most recently been Putin’s envoy to international organizations on sustainable development. He is well-known in Russia, having held high-profile posts since the early 1990s, when he oversaw privatization efforts under Boris Yeltsin. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ex-putin-adviser-chubais-reported-to-be-in-european-hospital/ | 2022-08-01 13:37:52 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ex-putin-adviser-chubais-reported-to-be-in-european-hospital/ |
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — Olympic champion Marco Odermatt built a big lead in the opening run of a men’s World Cup giant slalom Saturday as the Swiss skier closed in on the overall title.
Odermatt, who is the defending overall champion, will lock up the title again if he finishes the race in 17th position or better. That result would increase his lead over runner-up Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in the overall standings to 400 points or more.
Kilde is sitting out this weekend’s races and the Norwegian speed specialist can mathematically score 400 points at next week’s World Cup Finals in Andorra.
Odermatt could become the first skier to win the sport’s most prestigious prize in back-to-back seasons since Austrian standout Marcel Hirscher won eight times in a row from 2012-19.
Odermatt can also secure the giant slalom title this weekend. He currently leads Kristoffersen by 100 points and Kranjec by 195. A second race is scheduled for Sunday, followed by the season-ending race next Saturday.
Odermatt triumphed in four of the seven World Cup giant slaloms this season and won gold in GS at last month’s world championships.
The Swiss skier has already clinched the super-G title.
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Company continues to expand in high-value crops and prepares to launch new fund
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmland LP, the largest fund manager focused on organic farmland in the U.S., today announced that 2022 will be a record year in terms of revenue, capital under management and the value of its farmland portfolio.
"The past year was a time of significant accomplishments for Farmland LP, " said Craig Wichner, CEO. "We over-achieved on raising new capital, expanded production – notably in organic blueberries and wine grapes – hired talented people on our farm and fund management teams, and increased outreach to prospective investors. We see this strong momentum continuing into 2023, fueled by surging consumer demand for organic and regeneratively farmed food."
Farmland LP converts conventional farmland to organic, regeneratively managed farmland. Their funds enable investors to access a portfolio of farmland that is well diversified by location and crop types. With investor demand expected to remain strong, the firm plans to launch a new fund early in 2023 and has a strong pipeline of acquisitions.
Farmland LP re-opened Fund I earlier this year, exceeding its target and raising $25 million in capital to expand organic blueberry production from 150 to 600 acres in California. The expansion reflects the increasing demand for high-quality organic blueberries and Farmland LP's relationships with the nation's largest distributors of organic berries.
In March, the firm formally closed Fund II (Vital Farmland REIT LLC), raising approximately $140 million in equity capital from family offices, institutional and accredited individual investors and clients of Registered Investment Advisors.
Many investors today are concerned about greenwashing and are looking beyond marketing claims to understand if sustainable-investment funds can demonstrate their environmental and social benefits. Farmland LP's regenerative farming practices and adherence to Certified Organic standards give investors confidence that our business practices align with their goals.
About Farmland LP
Founded in 2009, Farmland LP owns/manages over 15,000 acres of high-quality farmland in Washington, Oregon and California with approximately $200 million in assets. Farmland LP's strategy of converting conventional farmland to organic, focusing on high value and permanent crops and using technology to drive productivity gains, is designed to generate competitive, risk-adjusted returns to investors while quantifying the benefits regenerative farming can provide for human and ecosystem health. To learn more visit www.FarmlandLP.com.
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Newly Launched Fixed Wireless Access Infrastructure and CPE Advanced Research Report
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, announced today the launch of its new Fixed Wireless Access Infrastructure and CPE advanced research report (ARR). Preliminary findings suggest total Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) revenues, including both RAN equipment and CPE revenue remain on track to advance 35 percent in 2022, driven largely by subscriber growth in North America.
"Fixed Wireless Access has become a key component to bridging the digital divide and connecting rural and underserved markets globally," said Jeff Heynen, Vice President and analyst with the Dell'Oro Group. "What we are also seeing is that FWA can effectively compete with existing fixed broadband technologies, especially with the advent of 5G and other higher-throughput, non-3GPP technologies," added Heynen.
Additional highlights from the Fixed Wireless Access Infrastructure and CPE Advanced Research Report:
- Global FWA revenues are projected to surpass $5 B by 2026, reflecting sustained investment and subscriber growth in both 3GPP- and non-3GPP-based network deployments.
- The North American market remains the most dynamic in terms of deployed FWA technology options, with CBRS and other sub-6GHz options growing alongside 5G NR and 60GHz options.
- Long-term subscriber growth is expected to occur in emerging markets in Southeast Asia and MEA, due to upgrades to existing LTE networks and a need to connect subscribers economically.
- The Satellite Broadband market will also be a key enabler of broadband connectivity in emerging markets, thanks to LEOS-based providers including Starlink, OneWeb, and Project Kuiper.
The Dell'Oro Group Fixed Wireless Access Infrastructure and CPE Report includes 5-year market forecasts for FWA CPE and RAN infrastructure, segmented by technology, including 802.11/Other, 4G LTE, CBRS, 5G sub-6GHz, 5G mmWave, and 60GHz technologies. The report also includes regional subscriber forecasts for FWA and satellite broadband technologies, as well as Gateway forecasts for satellite broadband deployments. To purchase this report, please contact us by email at dgsales@delloro.com.
Dell'Oro Group is a market research firm that specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center markets. Our firm provides in-depth quantitative data and qualitative analysis to facilitate critical, fact-based business decisions. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.delloro.com.
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A boater fled the Magothy River on Sunday night after striking another vessel, mortally wounding a Pasadena woman and injuring a man, Maryland Natural Resources Police said.
Laura Slattery, 63, of Pasadena died of injuries she had sustained during the 10 p.m. crash at the entrance of the Magothy River between Cape St. Claire and Gibson Island, according to Lauren Moses, an NRP spokesperson.
Police are still seeking the operator of the other boat involved, who fled the area immediately after the crash, and was seen after the collision in the area of Deep Creek, off the coast of Cape St. Claire.
Slattery and an adult male were both injured while on a Wellcraft boat that was struck by a white center console vessel, estimated to be 25 feet long and operated by an unknown person, Moses said.
Natural Resources Police ask those with information on the other vessel or its occupants to contact 410-260-8888. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/ac-cn-nrp-boat-crash-magothy-20220705-shq4chpsyzgvnd2w5kg2yrngei-story.html | 2022-07-05 21:40:58 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/ac-cn-nrp-boat-crash-magothy-20220705-shq4chpsyzgvnd2w5kg2yrngei-story.html |
NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the country continues to navigate through the pandemic organizations have to reimagine how they provide resources and engage their constituency. Every year Seeds of Fortune Inc. host their Seeds To Bloom Awards, an induction ceremony for newest HS members and a celebration of their graduating HS seniors' collegiate scholarship awards at $30 Million to date as they matriculate into University. During the event Seeds of Fortune Inc. recognizes extraordinary women in the community who inspire the next generation of women of color across industries. This year's celebration took place on June 5th at the Rubin Museum of Art.
2022 Seed to Bloom honorees were:
- Brooklyn White-Grier, Gen Z Editor, ESSENCE, Corporate Community Award
- Barbara Peng, President, Insider Inc., Corporate Entrepreneur Award
- Christina Boyle, Managing Director, Internet & Digital Media Sector Head, BMO Capital Market, HerWall Street Award
- Lurie Daniel-Favors, Executive Director, The Center for Law and Social Justice Medgar Evers College, Educator Community Award
- Miguelina Camilo, Bronx Chapter President,100 Hispanic Women National, Inc., Woman of the Year Award
- Natalie Guzman, CMO Savage X Fenty: Lingerie by Rihanna, Corporate Community Award
- Tolulope Omokaiye, Founder & CEO, EVOLVE Mentoring, Inc., Business Community Award
The organization expanded their awards and combined it with their inaugural "Women of Color Creating Wealth" Summit, which took place at Nasdaq in the heart of Times Square. The summit is a financial empowerment day dedicated to helping Gen Z: Ages 15-24 learn how to manage their personal finances and prepare for their financial futures. Participants focused on learning Budgeting and Savings sponsored by Fidelity and Black Girl Freedom Fund of GrantMakers for Girls of Color: centered on investing and securing earned income.
"I am proud that we are able to continue to serve young women of color, as the college process can be intimidating, especially the financial aspect. This summit is the first step to reinforcing their financial education. We are also proud to be this year's recipient of the Black Women Impact Grant from Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women to continue our work. With the philanthropic investment, we will have access to unrestricted, multi-year funding to grow our efforts to serve an additional 2,500 Black female HS students who have identified difficulties in affording college. This investment helps educate households of color to make strategic monetary decisions in sending their daughters to college." Nitiya Walker Founder & Executive Director
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DEAR ABBY: Many years ago, I was the victim of a violent assault that my then-11-year-old daughter witnessed. It traumatized both of us, but me, the worst. I completely dove off the deep end. I started drinking and smoking pot, and quit going to church. My whole personality changed. I dumped every moment with my children I could onto my husband so I could go out with my “friends” to clubs, bars, concerts or parties. I then started having affairs with many different people, including women. My husband knew about all of it, and despite the torture and pain I put him through, he stayed with me.
Years later, I have managed to slowly heal from that devastating assault. I have found true joy in my children and being a mom again. I don’t party, drink or smoke anymore. But one thing has become clear: I’m no longer sexually attracted to my husband. I love him very much, but the thought of being intimate with him grosses me out. It makes me so uncomfortable. I don’t even like it when he tries to caress me. It has been like this for a year. But I do love holding hands with him and cuddling with him.
I feel bad because I know he has needs, but I just can’t bring myself to get physical with him. I’ve actually thought that leaving him might be necessary because he has never fully healed from what I’ve done, and I’m still struggling with finding other men attractive. Abby, what do I do?
— PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER
DEAR PUTTING: Please accept my sympathy for what happened to you. I am struck by the fact that nowhere in your letter did you mention receiving counseling after the assault. If you didn’t, please seek a referral to a licensed mental health professional now so you can understand the connection between what you experienced in your assault and your lack of feelings for your husband. You owe it to both of you.
Go online and search on “services for victims of crime” in your state. Help is available through these resources. Alternatively, your physician or health insurance provider can give you a referral. Explain to your husband that the problem isn’t him — it’s you — and you will be getting help for it. Please don’t wait to reach out because help is available.
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DEAR ABBY: My 45-year-old son is getting married to a lovely girl. More good news: She is an heiress and in a financial bracket that I can never compete with. They are having a big wedding. I need help finding a gift that will have meaning to them. They already have a house, fancy trips and everything they need.
— BAFFLED IN OHIO
DEAR BAFFLED: Because you’re not an heiress, consider giving them something money can’t buy — something personal. If she cooks when they’re not traveling or has someone to do it for them, a collection of your family’s recipes — especially your son’s favorites — might be appreciated. And if they plan to start a family later on, consider giving his wife his baby book if you made one for him. | https://www.inquirer.com/life/dear-abby-victim-physical-violence-still-wrestles-with-impact-20220629.html | 2022-06-29 05:45:37 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/life/dear-abby-victim-physical-violence-still-wrestles-with-impact-20220629.html |
MICHIGAN CITY — One person is in custody following a fatal shooting Wednesday, police said.
Michigan City police said they were called out shortly after 8 p.m. for a person suffering multiple gunshot wounds in the 1600 block of East Michigan Boulevard.
Officers arrived on scene to find 53-year-old Michigan City resident Jimmy Brown inside a vehicle with multiple life-threatening injuries.
Medical care was provided to Brown at the scene before he and a passenger were taken to Franciscan Health Michigan City hospital, where Brown later died, police said. His passenger was treated.
Police said they learned of an additional crime scene in the 100 block of Butler Street where a person of interest was detained.
"Numerous articles of evidence were collected while processing these crime scenes and multiple witnesses were interviewed," police said. "Detectives continue to interview witnesses, search for video surveillance and collect additional evidence."
The LaPorte County prosecutor's office is reportedly conducting a probable cause review of the investigation.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Michigan City Police Detective Mark Galetti at 219-874-3221, extension 1088 or by email at mgaletti@emichigancity.com.
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The former owner of Hometown Appliances agreed to pay a total of about $35,350 in restitution, with some of the money to be paid to his 18 victims upfront and some in installments during the next year.
"The loss prevention officer also told the officer that the suspect shown in the surveillance images may have committed similar check frauds at other locations in Northwest Indiana," police said.
A Lake Criminal Court jury must decide whether 8-month-old Maci Moor was shaken to death by her 32-year-old babysitter, Trisha Woodworth, or died of a stroke from accidental falls.
Porter County police said they responded around 11:30 p.m. Saturday to a report of the rollover crash on North Calumet Avenue, near the intersection with E. 632 North in Liberty Township. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/one-in-custody-following-fatal-region-shooting-police-say/article_326333a7-4209-5a86-812f-4e4d11133769.html | 2022-07-14 18:10:58 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/one-in-custody-following-fatal-region-shooting-police-say/article_326333a7-4209-5a86-812f-4e4d11133769.html |
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — The four-door sedan pulled up near an intersection in a central Florida city where people were milling about, the tinted windows came down and people from inside the vehicle started shooting in all directions, wounding 11 men, including two critically, police officials said.
Only a minute earlier, a school bus had dropped off children in the Lakeland neighborhood on Monday afternoon.
“It sounded like one of those huge rolls of firecrackers tied up to each other,” said neighborhood resident Tina Smith, who lives 50 feet (15 meters) from the lot where the shootings took place. “But you knew it wasn’t firecrackers.”
Authorities on Tuesday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects involved in the shooting in Lakeland, a city of 112,000 residents located about halfway between Tampa and Orlando.
One of the critically-injured men was shot in the stomach, and the other was shot in the jaw. The others had non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities said Monday night that there were 10 shooting victims but updated that figure to 11 on Tuesday, adding that one of the injured men later had walked into a hospital with minor injuries.
The victims were males between the ages of 20 and 35, said Lakeland Police Chief Sammy Taylor at a news conference.
After the shootings, the vehicle peeled off. Detectives believed they found it Tuesday morning in a Lakeland neighborhood and planned to run lab tests on it to verify it was the vehicle involved in the shootings.
“I’ve been here 34 years, and I can tell you I have never worked an event where this many people were shot at one time, ever,” Taylor said. “We consider ourselves to be a small town … and when stuff like this happens, it hits home, for me, at least.”
Taylor said investigators believe the shooting was a targeted attack and wasn’t random. Some of the shooting victims were cooperating but others weren’t, detectives said.
Police said marijuana packaged for sale was found at the scene of the shooting, and investigators believe drug sales were taking place. While the lot was known for drug dealing and other street crime, nothing had ever taken place on the magnitude of the shootings, Smith said.
“It’s definitely unexpected,” Smith said. “But I still feel safe. It wasn’t like the whole block was sprayed. They were coming with names on the bullets, obviously.”
Taylor described the neighborhood of cinder block and wood frame bungalows with small yards as “challenged,” a place where a lot of renters reside, and he said the police had focused a lot of attention on the area in recent years. Many of the homes have bars on the windows, and on Tuesday multiple bullet holes could be seen in the window of a nearby apartment building near the empty lot where the shootings took place.
Miguel Joseph, a neighborhood resident, said drug dealing was common at the lot, and he believed the suspects came from outside the neighborhood.
“That’s all they do, every day,” Joseph said of the drug selling. “I hope they don’t come here anymore.”
The police chief said officers had tried to remove “the criminal element” from the neighborhood, and they had put “quite a few people in jail from that neighborhood,” but often former criminals return to dealing drugs when they get out of jail.
“It’s a tough neighborhood and there are some challenges,” Taylor said. “We’ve put a lot of resources and manpower in trying to fix that.”
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Associated Press writer Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida contributed to this report. | https://www.wfla.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-suspects-sought-after-florida-drive-by-shooting-wounds-10/ | 2023-02-01 13:42:21 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-suspects-sought-after-florida-drive-by-shooting-wounds-10/ |
A Maine man missing since December has been found dead in Massachusetts.
Michael Gray, 31, was last seen on the night of Dec. 10, 2022, after he found himself locked out of his vehicle, according to the Peabody Police Department.
Gray called the Peabody police for help gaining entry back into his vehicle. Unable to get back in, he was apparently given a ride to a family member’s workplace on Main Street in Peabody, police said at the time.
But his family never saw him again.
Earlier this month, authorities conducted water searches off Juniper Beach in Salem, where items believed to belong to Gray were found.
A pedestrian found his body Thursday afternoon across Salem Harbor, NECN reported Saturday morning.
No additional details were immediately available Saturday morning, but authorities said Gray’s death remains under investigation. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/01/28/news/new-england/michael-gray-body-found/ | 2023-01-28 18:29:38 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/01/28/news/new-england/michael-gray-body-found/ |
The 2023 Toyota Crown usurps the full-size sedan throne formerly held by the faded Toyota Avalon, and costs a bit more as well, Toyota disclosed on Tuesday. With all-wheel drive and a choice between two hybrid systems, the new 2023 Toyota Crown arrives from Japan with a starting price of $41,045, including a $1,095 destination fee.
Sold in Japan for decades but only now being introduced globally, the 2023 Toyota Crown has a raised fastback profile that mixes a bit of everything—sedan, crossover, and wagon—without all of the benefits of those vehicle types. In our testing, it handled more like a crossover than a sedan, yet it has a trunk instead of a more flexible tailgate like that of a crossover.
Where those melded traits do excel is as a standard hybrid with all-wheel drive. The base XLE and mid-grade Limited trims sport a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine with front and rear motors to produce 236 hp. It has a continuously variable automatic transmission. The Crown has an estimated efficiency of 41 mpg combined, which is impressive for an AWD vehicle of this size. The 2022 Avalon Hybrid with front-wheel drive only had a 44-mpg combined rating.
The top Platinum trim trades efficiency for acceleration, with a 2.4-liter turbo-4 and front and rear motors that produce 340 hp. Toyota estimates a 0-60 mph time of 5.9 seconds, which is at least two seconds quicker than the base model. The Hybrid Max system uses a new type of CVT with a direct-shift transmission with paddle shifters on the steering wheel to flick through six gears. The efficiency rating drops to an estimated 30 mpg combined, and the 21-inch wheels don’t help.
The 2023 Crown comes well equipped with standard driver-assistance features that include automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control, active lane control, automatic high beams, and blind-spot monitors. Standard convenience features include heated front seats with power adjustability, a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, a 12.3-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless smartphone charging, navigation, and 19-inch alloy wheels.
The $46,645 Limited trim adds a panoramic sunroof, leather upholstery, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear seats, a heated steering wheel, and an 11-speaker JBL audio system.
The Platinum trim tops the lineup at $53,445, and most of that upcharge comes from the Hybrid Max powertrain. It also has adaptive dampers, 21-inch wheels, and a surround-view camera system.
Made in Japan, the 2023 Toyota Crown goes on sale early next year.
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The FDA commissioner talks about the latest on the baby formula shortage Published July 30, 2022 at 5:10 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:34 The baby formula shortage continues and NPR's Cheryl Corley talks to FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf about why. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-07-30/the-fda-commissioner-talks-about-the-latest-on-the-baby-formula-shortage | 2022-07-30 22:33:09 | 0 | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-07-30/the-fda-commissioner-talks-about-the-latest-on-the-baby-formula-shortage |
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday shot down the idea of utilizing a short-term debt ceiling hike to prevent a government default.
Just hours before McCarthy is scheduled to meet with President Biden on the issue, the Speaker said the sides should come together to negotiate a compromise — combining a debt ceiling increase with sharp spending cuts — rather than punt the debate to a later day.
“We shouldn’t kick the vote,” McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol.
The sentiment is shared by the White House and other congressional leaders in both parties, all of whom are scrambling to secure a bipartisan compromise that will prevent the first default in the country’s history — though whether a path to such a deal exists remains unclear.
The debt limit debate has gained urgency over the last week after Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen warned the department could exhaust its ability to pay all the country’s obligations as early as June 1.
Yellen’s announcement prompted Biden to call Tuesday’s 4 p.m. meeting at the White House, which will also feature Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
Heading into the gathering, however, the sides are no closer to a deal than they were in the first week of February, when Biden and McCarthy last met face-to-face.
Republicans are insisting that any increase in the Treasury Department’s borrowing cap must be accompanied by steep cuts designed to curb deficit spending — the phenomenon that has, over decades, ballooned the national debt to more than $31 trillion. House Republicans last month had passed a debt ceiling hike that included cuts to federal programs estimated to reduce deficit spending by roughly $4.8 trillion over a decade.
Biden, however, has rejected the idea of marrying the two issues. The president has argued that because lifting the debt ceiling simply empowers the government to pay debts approved by Congress in the past, the cap should be lifted as a “clean” standalone bill, and the parties can haggle over deficit reduction strategies as part of separate negotiations on federal funding, which must be extended by Sept. 30 to prevent a partial government shutdown.
The impasse has raised the odds that party leaders will need to seek a temporary suspension of the debt ceiling to prevent a default and allow the sides more time to negotiate. Some have suggested that a logical extension would be through the end of the fiscal year, thereby aligning the default and shutdown deadlines and allowing discussions of both to happen simultaneously.
McCarthy, though, is throwing cold water on the idea, saying Congress doesn’t need more time, it just needs to come together on a deal.
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DALLAS (AP)Jason Robertson was merely a footnote on a night he tied the Dallas record for points in consecutive games.
History-making rallies can do that.
Radek Faksa scored with 1:33 remaining, and the Stars erased a three-goal deficit in the final 10 minutes for a 6-4 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.
After allowing a goal at 9:37 of the third to fall behind 4-1, Dallas became the first team in NHL history to trail by at least three goals that late and win in regulation, according to STATS.
”They’re memorable both ways, but particularly when you’re on the right end of them,” first-year Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. ”When you’re on the wrong end of them, they don’t feel as good.”
As for Robertson, he scored the first goal of the game to give him points in 13 consecutive games, getting even with Dave Gagner from the first season the franchise was in Texas after moving from Minnesota in 1993.
Then Robertson scored the last on an empty-netter to finish a five-goal third for the Stars, who extended Chicago’s losing streak to five games, all in regulation, while beating the Blackhawks for the fifth consecutive time.
At that point, the crowd had already been sent into delirium, witnessing the first rally from a three-goal deficit in the third period in the NHL this season, and the first for the Stars since 2015-16.
”When you’re on the road like that and a crowd gets in it and the team gets momentum, it’s hard to stop,” said Chicago’s Seth Jones, who scored against his hometown team in a three-goal second period to erase a 1-0 deficit. ”We have to find a way to just calm down.”
Less than a minute after Maxi Domi put the Blackhawks up 4-1, captain Jamie Benn scored for Dallas on a power play after Domi was called for tripping.
About four minutes after that, Mason Marchment and Ty Dellandrea scored 14 seconds apart to get the Stars even.
Dallas probably would have settled for overtime, but Faksa sent a rebound toward the net from a nearly impossible angle along the goal line in the final two minutes.
Faksa raised his arms as if he had scored, but play continued. It was stopped soon after, and replay showed the puck sneaking under the legs of Petr Mrazek and crossing the goal line before getting swept out by Chicago forward Jason Dickinson.
”I wasn’t sure because I was kind of behind the goal line,” Faksa said. ”I knew at least half the puck was in, but I couldn’t tell if it was all the way in. Right away, when I came on the bench, they told me it’s in.”
After Jones got Chicago even, Andreas Athanasiou and Connor Murphy pushed the lead to 3-1 in the second. Captain Jonathan Toews had his 500th career assist on Murphy’s goal.
The Central Division-leading Stars outshot the Blackhawks 22-5 in the third, but all the pressure didn’t seem like it would matter after Domi’s fifth goal of the season.
”We kind of didn’t have the same work ethic and sat back a little, not trying to protect it, they were coming hard,” Chicago coach Luke Richardson said. ”We just didn’t handle it well. On every goal, it was something probably different.”
ROBERTSON’S ROLL
Robertson, who started the night third in the NHL in goals, has 16 goals overall and 14 during the streak. The 23-year-old has 10 assists during the run.
Four players in the franchise’s Minnesota era had longer streaks, including Brian Bellows’ record 20-gamer in 1986.
TAKING EXCEPTION
Dallas defenseman Jani Hakanpaa wasted no time getting retribution after Chicago’s Jarred Tinordi leveled Dellandrea with a crunching hit near center ice in the first.
Hakanpaa pushed Tinordi from behind as both skated into Dallas’ offensive zone, where they dropped the gloves and exchanged several punches. There was no penalty for the hit.
HE’S BACK
It was Jones’ first game since Oct. 29. The defenseman had been sidelined by a right thumb injury.
UP NEXT
Blackhawks: A three-game homestand starts Friday against Montreal.
Stars: Dallas welcomes former coach Rick Bowness for the first time since his offseason departure as Winnipeg visits Friday. Bowness missed the Jets’ first trip to Texas because of COVID-19.
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LONDON, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- VIOOH, the leading premium global digital out of home supply-side platform, today announced the appointment of Hervé Brunet as a member of its board of directors.
Hervé Brunet is succeeding Philip Thomas, who is retiring from the VIOOH Board, where he has been a Non-Executive Director for the past three and a half years. Thomas has been with VIOOH since its inception, acting initially as its interim Chief Executive Officer.
Hervé Brunet is a highly respected business leader, recognised for his ad tech expertise and experience across Europe, the US and Asia. Previously, he has held numerous international senior management positions and was the CEO and co-founder of stickyADS.tv - an SSP and ad server video platform that helped premium video publishers design and run their own digital video advertising marketplaces. Brunet then held a General Manager position and head of TV and Video advertising at Comcast. He is now an investor and a partner at 50 Partners and Galion Project.
"I would like to thank Philip for his impactful contributions that helped take VIOOH from an idea and a project, through to the creation of the company it is today. Philip played a large role in helping VIOOH continue to develop and grow in so many markets thanks to his invaluable guidance," said Jean-Christophe Conti, Chief Executive Officer at VIOOH.
"Hervé was a natural choice to become a VIOOH board member and I'm confident that he will provide exceptional guidance and oversight to VIOOH's leadership team. With his many years of experience within the ad tech industry, Hervé will be instrumental in supporting VIOOH as we continue to align digital out of home with the wider programmatic ecosystem, and will help advise the strategic direction for VIOOH's continued strong growth,' added Conti.
"I'm excited for the opportunity to help lead this great board," said Hervé Brunet, Non-Executive Director at VIOOH. "I look forward to leveraging my industry experience, serving on a diverse collection of boards, to help drive continued growth for VIOOH and value for all stakeholders," added Brunet.
About VIOOH
VIOOH is a leading premium global digital out of home supply-side platform.
Launched in 2018 and with headquarters in London, VIOOH's platform connects buyers and sellers in a premium marketplace, making OOH easily accessible.
Led by a team of digital OOH and programmatic tech experts, VIOOH is pioneering the transformation of the OOH sector, championing its role in enhancing omni-channel digital campaigns through the use of programmatic capabilities and data. VIOOH currently trades programmatically in 17 markets, with more to follow.
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla dropped the starting prices for its two top-selling models overnight, the company’s fourth price cut in the U.S. this year.
The company lopped $3,000, or about 6%, off the starting prices for all three versions of the Model Y small SUV, Tesla’s top-seller. It also cut $2,000, or about 5%, from the starting price of a version of the Model 3 small sedan.
Tesla could have cut the Model 3 prices to make more cars loaded with options eligible for the U.S. government’s $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. With options, some Model 3s would exceed the government’s $55,000 price limit for cars to be eligible for the credit.
But some industry analysts say demand may be slowing for the company’s vehicles as more competition enters the market. Others say Tesla is using its high profit margins to take market share from competitors.
The price cuts at Tesla dragged down its shares and those of other major electric vehicle makers as well.
Shares of Tesla Inc. slid 2%. After major declines last year, the company’s stock is bouncing back, up almost 50% so far in 2023.
A message was left Wednesday morning seeking comment from Austin, Texas-based Tesla.
The cuts follow price drops earlier this week overseas, with analysts reporting cuts in Europe, Israel and Singapore.
They come just ahead of Tesla’s first-quarter earnings release scheduled for after the closing bell on Wednesday.
The $3,000 price cuts on the Model Y dropped the lowest-priced Dual Motor model to $46,990. The Long Range model went to $49,990 and the Y Performance dropped to $53,990. All versions of the Model Y were already eligible for the U.S. tax credit because the price limit for SUVs is $80,000.
The Model 3 Rear Wheel Drive, Tesla’s lowest-priced vehicle, saw a cut to $39,990. The Model 3 Performance version stayed the same at $52,990.
Neither of Tesla’s slower-selling bigger models, the S and X, are eligible for tax credits, and prices remained the same Wednesday for both of them.
CEO Elon Musk has said that demand for the company’s cars is limited by affordability. “There is plenty of demand for our products, but if the price is more money than people have, that demand is irrelevant,” he wrote on Twitter earlier this month.
Fueled by previous price cuts, Tesla’s first-quarter sales grew by 36%, but they still fell short of analyst expectations. The company said it delivered a quarterly record of 422,875 vehicles worldwide from January to March, up from just over 310,000 a year ago. The increase fell short of analyst estimates of 432,000 for the quarter, according to FactSet.
Analysts are watching Tesla’s financial results to see if the price drops cut into profit and margins per vehicle.
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IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Kohree Portable Refrigerator
- Iceco JP42 Pro Portable Freezer Cooler
- Ivation Electric Cooler and Warmer with Wheels and Handle
When it comes to picnics, camping, road trips and tailgating parties, an electric cooler is a must. The best ones can keep your food and beverages cold for a lot longer than standard coolers. They can keep you from having to run to the store to buy ice every few hours.
Not only are these coolers functional, but they also come in different sizes and designs to suit anyone. Some even have distinct features that are sure to make your next outing even better.
How they work
While classic coolers use ice to keep food and drinks at the ideal temperature, an electric cooler is similar to a refrigerator in that it uses electricity. The power source depends on the model, but most have one of the following:
- Cord: This can be plugged into a wall or a car’s cigarette lighter. It’s convenient for overnight or all-day outings, such as tailgating parties or camping.
- Power bank: This keeps the cooler running while on the go without needing to use a cord. It’s commonly found in smaller models and great for picnics or road trips.
Besides this, there are two main types of electric coolers:
- Compressor coolers: Some electric coolers have an internal compressor that provides efficient cooling throughout. These can keep the items inside ice cold.
- Thermoelectric coolers: Other coolers come with a Peltier plate that provides ambient cooling. These are efficient, but they don’t keep food as cold as compressor coolers.
Capacity
Most electric coolers are measured in liters or quarts. Some manufacturers list the capacity as “cans,” referring to how many soda cans can fit inside. The larger the capacity, the heavier the cooler but the more it can hold.
There’s no one standard size or capacity for these devices, though they tend to range from around 15 to 45 liters. When looking for a cooler, consider the following things:
- Frequency of moving the cooler.
- Available storage space.
- Items you want to store in the cooler.
- Whether you also want to use ice.
If you need something for a short trip that involves only a few people, go with a cooler that’s around 15 to 25 liters. However, if you’re planning a bigger outing, choose one that’s at least 25 to 45 liters.
Design
The design of an electric cooler can affect its overall durability and how well it maintains its internal temperature.
Most have a sturdy outer shell that consists of ABS plastic, a type of thermoplastic polymer that’s strong, safe for food and abrasion- and impact-resistant. Many also use metal for added strength and durability. They also usually have a tight seal that regulates the internal temperature and keeps heat from entering, reducing energy costs.
Inside, these containers often have shelves or baskets to separate foods and beverages. This is particularly useful for storing items that could otherwise tip over and spill. Some have built-in cup holders too.
Temperature control
Since they’re electric, many of these coolers come with some form of temperature control, such as buttons you can press to raise or lower the temperature. More advanced models have an app that’s compatible with a smart device. Through the app, you can make any needed adjustments from anywhere.
Temperature range
Electric coolers can range from around minus 10 degrees and up, though most hover around 32 degrees. Not all foods should be stored at the same temperature, so you should have yours at the appropriate setting. Here are some common food items with the corresponding temperature:
- Ice cream: Minus 10 degrees or lower.
- Other frozen items: Around 0 degrees.
- Perishable goods, such as milk or raw meat: 32 to 40 degrees.
Some coolers are designed to keep food warm as well. These can go up to around 130 degrees and are good for storing already-cooked hot foods.
Portability
Electric coolers are usually heavier than standard ones because of their internal components. They can also become very heavy based on what you’re carrying. Even so, they are designed to be portable and usually have a sturdy handle or thick strap. Some even come with wheels for extra ease of transport.
7 best electric coolers
Available in 25- to 50-liter capacities, this sleek cooler has a temperature range of about minus 7 to 50 degrees. It is highly efficient and has a touchscreen control panel that makes it easy to adjust the temperature as needed. It’s perfect for road trips and camping.
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Iceco JP42 Pro Portable Freezer Cooler
This rugged electric cooler reaches anywhere from 0 to 50 degrees without ice. It features a cup holder, storage basket and convenient carrying handles. It also comes with a five-year warranty for the compressor and a one-year warranty for any other components.
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Ivation Electric Cooler and Warmer with Wheels and Handle
This 48-quart capacity device can easily keep foods and drinks warm or cold. It has a classic design with an integrated handle and wheels. It can be used either at home or with a vehicle charger.
VEVOR 12 Volt Refrigerator 16 Qt, Portable Mini Car Fridge
Ranging from minus 4 to 68 degrees, this modern cooler comes with convenient app control and Bluetooth connectivity. It is designed to run on nearly any power source, from a standard outlet to a boat or RV port. It is efficient and has a handy display that indicates the current temperature.
Apexcool 19-Quart Compressor Electric Cooler
Capable of keeping everything from ice cream to thawed meats or eggs at the right temperature, this reliable cooler can hold up to 19 quarts. It’s quiet, efficient and durable. Plus, it has a convenient control panel and a strong sealing strip to keep the internal temperature consistent.
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Mobicool MT35W Portable Thermoelectric Warming and Cooling Cooler
This midsized cooler is perfect for traveling around. It can hold up to one and a half times as much as a standard cooler of a similar size. It runs on either house or vehicle power options. As a thermoelectric cooler, it also has ambient temperatures to keep items cool.
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Joytutus 12-Volt Portable Freezer
Capable of running on any vehicle, including recreational vehicles and boats, this cooler has a temperature range of negative 4 to 50 degrees. It’s efficient, sturdy and large enough to hold whatever you need for camping, road trips or tailgating parties.
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — Hoosier Ag Today and Farm World are teaming up again to host the Indiana Farm Equipment and Technology Expo.
Starting on December 13, the Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield will be filled with farm equipment, technology and vendors.
“It’s completely free for farmers to come in and check things out,” said the Vice President of Hoosier Ag Today, Eric Pfeiffer. “We’re really looking forward to it this year because we’ve got a lot of big equipment sill coming to the show and a lot of great learning seminars.”
Farmers have continued to deal with shortages in the agricultural industry.
“Shortages has been a big word in agriculture lately,” said Pfeiffer. “You talk about equipment shortages, labor shortages, there’s really shortages everywhere.”
When it comes to equipment shortages, Pfeiffer said there’s no need to worry. There will be a lot of equipment at the Expo this year.
“Reynolds Farm Equipment is one of the big sponsors of our event this year and they’re bringing a lot of equipment that you can come check out in addition to a lot of other companies,” said Pfeiffer. “As it relates to labor shortages that’s a big one we’ve been talking about for years, even pre-covid.”
Pfeiffer says not only are there labor shortages on farms, but also in agribusiness across the state.
That’s why they’re adding the Ag Career Fair to the Farm Show this year.
“It’s sponsored by the Indiana state department of agriculture and we’ll have about 15 companies that are agribusinesses in Indiana, all short on labor, needing people,” said Pfeiffer. “It's not just for people in agriculture. They're looking for engineers, they're looking for IT people. It runs the gamut.”
Pfeiffer says if you’re looking for a career, agriculture might be the place for you. He said you can find many job opportunities at the Ag Career Fair.
"We're really trying to respond to what farmers and agribusinesses are telling us are the major issues in agriculture,” said Pfeiffer. “Again, labor has been an issue well before covid and not just on the farm, but agribusinesses are hurting. Indiana is a hub for a lot of these agribusinesses."
As far as the technology side of things, Pfeiffer says it’s important to showcase new technology every year.
“As we've talked about, labor on the farm is not there. So we have to come up with creative ways to get that work done and it's happening through technology,” said Pfeiffer. “It's happening through autonomous tractors that are coming here probably in 2023 and it's coming through a lot of the drones that you see out in the field and being able to spray certain areas."
Pfeiffer says farmers get to see a lot of things at the Farm Show. However, there’s a few things that make the Indiana farm Equipment and Technology Expo standout from other farm shows.
“At our show we have the seminar stage where we’re doing a lot of educational things for farmers,” said Pfeiffer. “From the financial side of things James Mintert with Purdue’s Center for Commercial Ag will be there again this year with his outlook and we’re doing a market session with a couple of our regular Market Analyst with Hoosier Ag Today.”
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MARFA, Texas — The city of Marfa is filled to the brim with art pieces. To say that all of them are pretty to look at is an understatement.
However, Roberto Dopson is interested in a different, more practical, type of art... one that he perfected over years of hard work and dedication.
“This is what's called functional art tableware. It's work that you actually use, you know, cups, bowls, buy a piece of this then you you will use it," Dopson said. "You're not going to just hang it on the wall or put it on the shelf.”
A successful dentist, Dopson and his wife sold the practice to pursue other dreams.
So, they moved to Alpine to attend Sul Ross University. It was at the University that a mutual love of ceramics was discovered.
“The first class that my wife took at Sul Ross was ceramics and she fell in love with ceramics," Dopson said. "About a year later, I asked her if I could take a class and she said 'yeah, you can take a class but you have to stay up there at the school.'”
But Sul Ross didn't have all the classes they needed. So, they went international, hoping to hone their craft in places like Alberta and Japan.
“We actually did that four times," Dopson said. "[We] went to Japan, because we were just intrigued by the culture and the type of ceramics they were producing over there.”
Dopson and his wife traveled the world taking classes… he eventually settled down in Marfa, where his studio is now.
“About eight years ago, we actually moved our studio from Alpine to Marfa because Marfa is where our our sales are. That's where the market is for this work," Dopson said. "So we're very happy to have a first class ceramic studio here in Marfa.”
Unfortunately, Dopson is manning the studio without his lifeline partner, as she passed away three years ago after a battle with Parkinson's Disease.
But still, Marfa has become a base of operations where he can sell his creations, and there are plenty of galleries to sell from in the town.
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As crypto winter persists, leading investors such as Coinbase Ventures turn to Centrifuge
NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrifuge, the first DeFi protocol to finance real-world assets (RWAs) on the blockchain, today announced a strategic funding round from prominent industry players, including Coinbase Ventures.
The $4 million round, comes as Centrifuge has seen tremendous momentum in recent months and overall growing attention to real-world assets across the financial industry and crypto. Earlier this year, crypto and blockchain investment firm BlockTower Capital announced a $3 million strategic partnership with Centrifuge, which has now financed more than $182 million of real-world assets.
"We're building the credit market of the future and along with that we need to build out the financial ecosystem for institutions to transact on chain." said Lucas Vogelsang, CEO and Co-Founder, Centrifuge. "Partners like Coinbase and BlockTower are essential in building critical parts of this infrastructure, as Centrifuge becomes the go-to platform for real-world assets and on chain secured credit."
Covid-19 and the DeFi Summer of 2020 introduced many new investors, both individual and institutional, to crypto. But as crypto winter settled in during 2022, many of these investors are looking for products that provide real value and generate sustainable yield in safer asset classes. Centrifuge does precisely that by bringing off chain assets into DeFi, enabling a range of businesses to get access to financing without banks or other third party intermediaries. Centrifuge has become the key bridge connecting real-world assets to DeFi liquidity with their integrations into Maker and Aave.
"The intersection of DeFi and traditional credit, often dubbed Real World Assets within the digital asset space, is one of our highest conviction theses at BlockTower across our strategies," said Thomas Klocanas, General Partner & Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital. "We're extremely excited about continuing to support Centrifuge, who have been pioneering this use case since early days, in their journey to re-platform private credit markets at scale."
With Centrifuge, businesses tokenize non-crypto assets such as mortgages, invoices and consumer credit, to create asset-backed pools. Once on chain, these assets are unlocked and transact directly with investors – and anyone is able to provide liquidity. Ultimately, Centrifuge aims to create a robust, decentralized credit ecosystem.
"Coinbase has a mission of increasing economic freedom globally through open financial systems. A feature of a vibrant crypto economy that serves all kinds of participants, investors, businesses, and institutions requires access to more asset classes like credit on-chain" said Anthony Bassili, Head of Asset Allocators for Coinbase Institutional. "As institutional adoption of crypto continues to grow, real-world assets are a critical component for broad and diverse portfolio construction within the crypto economy."
Centrifuge is steadfast in its vision to transform the existing financial system. The latest financing is yet another data point that strategic investment firms and crypto-forward Institutional investors will work alongside Centrifuge to retrench today's broken financial rails, removing intermediaries to create an optimized infrastructure for securitization. Other participating investors included L1 Digital and Scytale.
About Centrifuge
Founded in 2017, Centrifuge is a decentralized asset financing protocol. The platform enables a radically faster, more cost-effective, and fully-transparent model for connecting investors and borrowers with bankless liquidity. Centrifuge is unlocking economic opportunity for all with more equitable access to capital and credit.
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OLD FORGE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Lackawanna County District Attorney Mark Powell confirms remains were found during the search for Robert Baron in Old Forge.
Officials state that remains were found while law enforcement began searching woods near Pagnotti Park in Old Forge and abandoned coal mines in the missing case of Robert Baron.
DA Powell states they are hopeful that the remains found are of Robert Baron Sr., but at this time they are awaiting DNA testing to confirm the identity.
In January 2017, the Baron family became concerned when Robert Baron Sr. had not shown up
to work at the family business, Ghigiarelli’s Pizza, in Old Forge. They reported him missing and when officers arrived at the restaurant, it immediately became clear that a violent altercation had occurred inside, police said.
Powell stated in part regarding the remains found:
I have spoken with the Baron family and remain hopeful that we can provide them with the closure they deserve. The search will continue, and for as long as it takes, to make sure we have left no stone unturned.
I want to thank the FBI, Pennsylvania State Police, New York State Police, and their team of cadaver dogs, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Lackawanna County Detectives, and the Old Forge Police Department for their hard work and enthusiasm in our ongoing efforts to solve this case.
I also want to thank members of the community for coming forward with tips that helped us move the investigation forward,”
Mark Powell, Lackawanna County District Attorney
Anyone with information is asked to contact the hotline at 570-963-6311 and a designated email address at lackawannada@lackawannacounty.org for you to share any information, which can be done anonymously.
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It's early morning in banana farm country in the lowlands of western Guatemala, about 10 miles from the Mexican border. The sun has just started cooking the air into a tropical soup. Crop dusters zigzag across the sky, casting shadows on the roofs of half a dozen low-slung buildings. One is a health clinic, another is a laboratory. This is the Fundación para la Salud Integral de los Guatemaltecos, or FunSalud for short.
About half past 8, a couple dozen junior researchers spill out of a building, jump into their three-wheeled red and green tuk-tuks, and fan out onto the rural roads. Research coordinator Neudy Rojop is behind the wheel of one of them. The ride is bumpy, jostling her up and down, but she's unflappable. "We are visiting two homes with families that are participating in the project," she says through a translator.
Rojop is referring to a FunSalud study she's supervising in this community. The research team is helping test what could be a clever way to look for viruses — all kinds of viruses but especially those that could cause serious and widespread illness in humans.
"We're trying to focus on pathogens that just happen to be in the blood that the mosquito happened to suck up," says Dr. Dan Olson, a research director at FunSalud and a pediatric infectious disease doctor at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine. The researchers are wagering that the earlier they can spot a virus that's circulating among people (as opposed to something the mosquitoes themselves carry, like dengue or yellow fever), the better the chances of stopping a global outbreak. That's when you can learn a pathogen's secrets, the scientists say — and then use that knowledge against the germs to vanquish them.
Rojop pulls up to a residence in the community of Chiquirines and cuts off the engine. The home has concrete walls and a metal roof and is one of 60 in the area that's enrolled in the study. Rojop hops out of her tuk-tuk and walks across the dusty yard. She passes a couple of pigs and skirts a band of patroling chickens. Rojop grew up not too far from here. People in this area "usually see their animals as part of their families," she says.
When Rojop gets to the front of the house, she pulls out a big tube they've dubbed the "insectazooka." But instead of launching insects, the insectazooka's white PVC pipe sucks them in.
"Basically, it is a vacuum," says Rojop. "And we use it to vacuum the mosquitoes alive."
Mosquitoes are a real nuisance here. Celia Alvarez is 60 and lives in this home with her sister, niece, daughter and two grandsons. She wears a black top with pink hibiscus flowers blooming across it. Alvarez smiles as she hits her arm, as if to swat the insects, saying that she usually just slaps them into oblivion.
But Neudy Rojop doesn't want squished mosquitoes. Instead, the real gold is what's in their abdomens. "Blood," she says.
The researchers want mosquitoes to do the work for them, like a swarm of flying syringes, sampling the blood of every pig, pet and person on the premises. The community members say they like this approach of disease surveillance because it doesn't involve a single needle to draw blood.
When the team members analyze that blood, they are looking for any viruses the mosquitoes may have slurped up — those known and, maybe one day, those the world has never seen before.
Neudi Rojop sucks up mosquitos with the insectazooka, sweeping the device into the dark corners of the house, under the beds and into the crannies.
Luis Escheverria for NPR
Why they're sucking up mosquitoes
There's good reason to search here.
Dr. Edwin Asturias, an infectious disease pediatrician at the University of Colorado, co-founded FunSalud a decade ago. Asturias, who's from this part of Guatemala, says it's a good place to look for spillovers — when a disease crosses from animals to people — for two main reasons. The first is that people and animals live so closely together.
"Because they are in a crowded condition," he explains, "the ability for any pathogen to move from the animals to the human is much higher. Maybe the pig is having a cold and now, suddenly, that influenza virus is going to transfer to a little child."
Viruses frequently shuttle between animals and humans. The vast majority of the time, attempts by a virus to move from a pig, say, into a human tend not to be too troublesome. "But in some cases," says Asturias, "the more you give the virus the chance to interact with humans, the more it's just going to adapt to be amongst the humans, mutating in a way that may become dangerous."
The second reason why it's worth doing disease surveillance in rural Guatemala has to do with the general health of the population. Many people here suffer from high rates of malnutrition, which makes them more vulnerable to disease, says Asturias. "To top it off," he adds, "their parents, who have survived those illnesses when they were young, are suffering now huge amounts of chronic illnesses." That includes renal failure, obesity, hypertension and diabetes.
Illness is like a well the residents here can't ever quite climb out of, says Asturias, and it weakens their immune systems over time. This means that it's possible for viruses — including those from animals — to sit and stew for longer.
"Therefore, if there's things that are going to emerge in the next few years," says Asturias, "it's better if you keep an eye on them all the time and intervene earlier ... if we want to think about providing a better control and prevention of infectious diseases in the future."
The mosquitoes go for one last ride
Back at the home in Chiquirines, the vacuum finishes yanking the mosquitoes from their hideouts. The operator quickly screws a cap onto the end. You can hear the trapped insects buzzing around inside — 60 to 70 mosquitoes, unscathed.
Silvia Alvarez, who also lives there, is pleased. They'd be welcome to vacuum the whole house, she says.
With that small hoard of insects in the tube, Rojop takes them on a quick drive to the lab, where they're plunged into a deep freezer that kills them but keeps their blood intact to sample and study.
After 15 minutes, Rojop's colleague, Cecilia González, pours the mosquito carcasses onto a petri dish, which she then pushes under a microscope. She sorts them by species and zeroes in on females that have recently feasted. Morales spots one whose abdomen is swollen with blood.
González puts that insect onto a piece of absorbent paper. Tweezers in hand, she takes off the head and carefully squeezes the mosquito. A tiny droplet of blood seeps out, soaking into the paper. This and other samples like it will be shipped to the University of Colorado for analysis.
Looking at that crimson dot, you can't help but wonder: Could some dreadful new virus be swimming in there?
The researchers on the FunSalud team have another pressing question: Is this whole new approach to surveillance actually going to work here?
"It's a very interesting and innovative way of monitoring or surveillance," says Asturias, "if it proves to be right. We have to still prove the concept. But I'm very confident that the technology that we are developing is getting us to detect pathogens faster."
So far, they have been able to detect a couple of known animal and human viruses (i.e., Epstein-Barr and canine distemper) in blood harvested from mosquitoes in Liberia. The team is still testing and refining its approach in Guatemala.
"We have to be on the lookout all the time," says Asturias. That's because the stakes for missing something small couldn't be bigger.
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Phillip Gardiner is co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council.
It struck a chord when the Kennedy Center was criticized in The Post for accepting donations from cigarette giants Altria and Philip Morris International. I and many others cannot reconcile any organization saying that it works to support Black communities while simultaneously taking substantial donations from an industry that predatorily targets the same people.
Subsequently, I was horrified to learn the National Museum of African American History and Culture takes donations from Marlboro-maker Altria. As co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, I wrote to the museum’s leadership to reject tobacco money. Vital Strategies, a global public health organization that helped with this essay, had approached the Kennedy Center with a similar message before Rebecca Perl’s piece ran in The Post and received no response. I did hear from the museum, nearly two months after contacting it. Officials said they appreciated my concern, but it doesn’t appear the museum has any intention to change its existing practices. I don’t think that’s good enough.
Standing tall on our capital’s National Mall alongside the Washington Monument, the museum says its purpose is to “tell the American story through the lens of African American history and culture.” Tobacco’s shameful chapter in that story is forever connected to the slave trade and tobacco plantations, where forced labor formed part of the foundations of the United States — and what is now a global tobacco industry.
Vestiges of that exploitation continue to this day, principally through the predatory marketing of menthol cigarettes and flavored little cigars in the Black community. There are more advertisements, more promotions in Black communities, where menthol cigarettes are cheaper.
Menthol is an anesthetic that masks the harsh taste of tobacco and allows for deeper inhalation of greater amounts of nicotine and tar. Studies show that menthol cigarettes are more addictive and, unsurprisingly, users find it harder to quit than non-menthol cigarette users. These products fuel a cycle of addiction to harmful products that hurt the pocketbooks in Black communities and fuels death, health problems and medical costs.
In 1953, 5 percent of African Americans smoked menthol cigarettes. Today, 85 percent of Black adults and 94 percent of Black youths who smoke use menthol products. Between 1980 and 2018, menthol cigarettes were responsible for 1.5 million new smokers, 157,000 smoking-related premature deaths and 1.5 million life-years lost among African Americans, representing a staggering 41 percent of premature deaths and half of the total in life-years lost in America. In other words — menthol takes a much greater toll on African Americans. Black Americans die disproportionately of heart attacks, lung cancer, strokes and other tobacco-related diseases. Menthol cigarettes are a leading vector for death and disease in Black communities, worsening health and economic inequities.
Responsibility lies with the tobacco companies. It’s time they stopped producing menthol cigarettes and treating the health of Black communities as expendable. Congress should also act to pass the proposed ban on menthol tobacco products without further delay. The Food and Drug Administration estimates that a national menthol ban could save up to 6,000 Black lives each year. Prioritizing profit over Black lives, the industry is lobbying against the legislation.
Tobacco donations to institutions such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture are part of the playbook, giving cigarette companies a sheen of respectability that allows them to access the halls of power and helping them maintain the profitable status quo. Altria, a donor to the museum, owns Philip Morris USA, the largest tobacco company in the United States, with nearly half of the cigarette retail market, including 26 percent of the menthol market. In accepting Altria’s money rather than holding its donor and the industry to account, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is complicit in the industry’s ongoing exploitation of Black people.
Maybe cultural institutions will not break from tobacco companies unless they are forced to do so. Some countries ban tobacco sponsorships so cigarette makers can’t promote themselves under the guise of corporate social responsibility.
Lacking such legislation in the United States, we are reliant on the integrity of the institutions involved or the type of public outrage that led to Sackler donations being rejected when the family’s company, Purdue Pharma, was exposed as a key driver of the opioid epidemic. I’m disappointed but not surprised that we haven’t heard the same volume of voices demanding that the National Museum of African American History and Culture reject cigarette company donations, since many African American organizations take the money. The preservation and honoring of African American history shouldn’t be an economic and cultural opportunity for corporations whose activities perpetuate inequity and harm for Black Americans.
So, if the National Museum of African American History and Culture or any other cultural or charitable institution would like to demonstrate their support for Black Americans this Black History Month, return the money received from the tobacco industry. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/13/big-tobacco-impact-health-black-americans/ | 2023-02-13 13:38:13 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/13/big-tobacco-impact-health-black-americans/ |
This story first appeared in the March 12, 1997, edition of Willamette Week under the headline, “Porn: Two Views.”
The red velvet Magic Garden at 217 NW 4th Ave. doesn’t feel wholesome, but it isn’t threatening, either. It’s cozy. The blue-plate special is pot roast. A preppy young couple and a woman in a Skinny Puppy T-shirt sit toward the rear. Some well-dressed Asian men are parked directly in front of the already naked dancer, laying out fives and tens. Viva Las Vegas, a scrubbed blonde who’s sexy without being Barbieish, slinks around to Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” on a platform stage. Afterwards, she collects her thin stack of bills, slips into tight black bloomers, cracks some jokes and chats at the bar with a grandfatherly regular. The bloodshot guys at the back bar hump their chairs and wait for the next girl.
Scenes like this go on all day and all night in Portland, and there are few zoning or obscenity laws to prevent it.
Does the barrage of public pornography in Portland result in increased violence against women? Are men more likely to yell “nice ass” after an evening of watching naked dancers? Do magazine vending machines showing breasts on every corner lower women’s self-esteem?
Jill Portugal thinks so. The 23-year-old Brown University graduate moved here from New York about a year ago to work as a DJ for KNRK 94.7 FM. She has since quit that job and now writes TV news copy for $6.50 an hour. She also manufactures T-shirts with slogans like “Fuck Your Fascist Beauty Standards” and “Not Intended for Decorative Use.” Portugal wrote to Willamette Week after the Dec. 4, 1996, issue, in which a John Callahan cartoon depicted a mailbox stuffed with “Dead Feminists.”
“It’s not the first time Willamette Week has blithely printed something obnoxious and offensive to its female readership,” she wrote, in what would become the opening salvo in a war of words. “Oregon doesn’t exactly have a female-friendly climate, and feminism’s pretty comatose here.... For me, there’s nothing very freeing about living in a state whose consumer-to-porn ratio ranks the highest in the nation.... I abhor the porn industry with violent intensity. Because it exploits and hurts women. Because I believe it’s fundamentally impossible both to consume porn, and to respect women as people. And because Portland is so steeped in porn culture, I know I can’t stay here.”
Portugal’s bitter conviction inspired an exceptional amount of reader response. One man likened her to a witch “having a bad hair day.” Another said he has “greater respect for a woman who will dance naked in front of a group of strangers” than for one “who whines.” A more thoughtful response, however, came from 22-year-old Magic Garden dancer Viva Las Vegas.
Viva’s real name is Liv Osthus. She’s a Midwestern Lutheran minister’s daughter who moved to Portland about a year ago after graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts. Her letter (which appeared in the March 5 issue of WW) responded to Jill’s “self-righteous and misogynist opinions” about the porn industry. Liv has worked at the Magic Garden for six months and earns about $40 an hour during her five-hour shifts. Stripping, she says, has been a safe, viable and even empowering career that gives her lots of spare time and a means to pay off steep college loans. “Money is power,” she wrote. “You only become the victim when you call [yourself] that.”
Both women agree that porn is easily accessible in Portland. There are 42 titty bars in the Portland metro area, up from 18 in 1989. The golden year for stripping, though, was 1993, when there were 50 strip bars in Portland.
The recent decrease in the number of strip bars doesn’t indicate any slack in Portland’s sex industry. A Fantasy Video megastore opened on West Burnside Street in 1996, and erotic magazines such as Exotic and The T&A Times are displayed prominently on downtown street corners. One-on-one action in the form of live lingerie models is the trendiest new form of adult entertainment. The number of lingerie parlors has shot from two to 13 in the past three years. These are popular ventures, as the overhead is low and no liquor licenses are involved. For $40 to $80, guys get a private half-hour “modeling” session to jerk off to. Extra twenties can buy extra treatment; Portland Police already have charged several lingerie establishments with prostitution, according to Sgt. Ed Brumfield.
Porn’s impact on the female psyche is hard to measure. Jill Portugal firmly believes that the proliferation of adult businesses feeds a stereotype of women as sexual objects, most valuable when they’re naked. To Liv Osthus, the mainstream acceptance of porn is a healthy part of culture that provides lucrative employment and that embraces, rather than subverts, sexuality.
Can these two women, both of whom call themselves die-hard feminists, co-exist in Portland? How can two such different philosophies each fulfill the goals of feminism?
After some delicate negotiations, Portugal and Osthus agreed to meet at our offices to find out. Both of them worried that the discussion would turn into a public catfight. The talk was emotional—Liv burst into tears while talking about her parents—but not vicious. After 90 minutes of taped conversation, led by editorial assistant
Brooke DeNisco and news editor John Schrag, the two women looked drained and in need of coffee. Nevertheless, they continued chatting for 45 minutes after the tape recorders clicked off. Here are excerpts from their conversation.
Willamette Week: Jill, when did you first start thinking seriously about pornography and its effect on women?
Jill Portugal: The way I remember it...I was at MTV as a summer intern, and MTV is in Times Square, where most of the porn theaters and porn shops are. As an intern, I was always being sent on runs through Times Square, and I was usually wearing a skirt because it was summer and an office environment, and I got harassed literally every time I left the building. I spent most of the summer really pissed off and thinking about why this was happening to me, and I made a connection between the area I was in—largely porn—and the way men were treating me there.
WW: Do you often write letters to publications?
Portugal: I do. If I read something that pisses me off, I write a letter to the editor. They usually don’t get printed.
I’m also a mentor to a 10-year-old girl. She lives right down the street from a strip bar, and I don’t think anyone should have to grow up next to a strip bar.
Liv Osthus: I don’t think a strip club should be right next to an elementary school. I think it’s in bad taste.
Portugal: I don’t know if it’s a zoning concern, but I personally like to be able to avoid these places. I’d rather I didn’t have to see them, because when I see something that upsets me it’ll upset me for a while. It interferes with my day. In New York, and every other place I’ve ever lived, you just avoid them. You don’t have to go to Times Square. Here you can’t avoid it. They’re everywhere, just sort of sprinkled throughout the city, and I don’t like it.
Osthus: Obviously there’s a market for it.
Portugal: I realize that.
Osthus: You think that porn isn’t necessary, that it’s an evil to society?
Portugal: Yes.
Osthus: You don’t think women do it by choice?
Portugal: I think there are a lot different reasons women get into the sex industry. I would say some of them are by choice, like, “I could be a schoolteacher, I could be a florist, but I ‘d rather be a stripper,” you know, but I don’t think that’s why the majority of people do it.
Osthus: Every woman that I work with is a die-hard feminist. A lot of them do it because of the scheduling, so they can raise families or be in school full-time and make enough money to survive and raise their kids. In their spare time, a lot of them work in women’s shelters. I’ve never been in a community of women who think so much about why society is the way it is. I went to Williams College, and what really frustrated me was that there were a lot of people talking all this rhetoric, but most of them had never taken a step in the real world and probably never would. Those were real white-collar, privileged kids who just accepted the MacKinnon/Dworkin sentiment, and I really think it has become the accepted rhetoric: Heterosexual sex is inherently violent, so porn is a form of rape.
Portugal: This is what you’re saying that they say?
Osthus: I‘m saying this is what feminism is today. That’s why there’s a lot of backlash and that’s why there’s a Callahan cartoon.... I think feminism right now is very polarizing; it’s lesbian groups, it’s radical lesbian groups, and it’s very polarizing. A lot of women can’t call themselves feminists and be accepted by the movement.
I work with a lot of feminist women at the Magic Garden. A lot of the jobs out there are just mind-numbing and soul-numbing. I wrote to my professors at Williams that this is the least-degrading job I could find. They wrote back, “We’re so proud of you. We’re glad you’re putting your knowledge to creative and artistic use.” That’s an exact quote. In my mind, a feminist is a free-thinking woman, period, the end.
WW: Jill, do you see anything inconsistent with being a feminist and doing what Liv does?
Portugal: Yes. I have a broader definition of what it means to be a feminist. Something like what’s in the dictionary. You know, total equality between women and men. Liv, when you say being a free-thinking woman, I think you basically mean doing what’s best for you. My problem with that is that I believe you have an effect on the world around you. Personally, I ‘d like your world to be separate from my world. I’d prefer if we could all have our own things that we wanted t o do and not affect other people adversely, but I don’t believe that’s what happens. I believe the existence of strip bars and porn magazines and adult videos and lots of advertising and basically a lot of stuff in the world has an effect on my life.
Osthus: I take great offense at that; I mean, the world revolves around sex and our own sexual interactions. A lot of what you call harassment is just normal sexual banter between the human species. It goes on in every culture around the world.
Portugal: Yeah. I know that, but if someone doesn’t know me, they have no right to talk to me in a sexual way. I choose not to be defined exclusively by my sexuality. I have sex, but that’s not my identity as a person. I can do a lot of other things . . . I can write. I can knit, you know. I can design T-shirts. There’s a lot of things I can do, and I don’t want my primary identity as Jill to be “Jill, she’s the one with the tits.” You basically have accepted the fact that you are being defined by your sexuality.
Osthus: Not at all. I mean, I consider what I do an art form. I honestly do. I ‘d like to invite you down to my club to watch me do what I do. I consider it an art form.
Portugal: OK, you may not think that you are defining yourself that way, but do you really think that the men are getting the same thing out of it that you are?
Osthus: Certainly.
Portugal: Are men thinking, “God, I wonder what her favorite authors are?”
Osthus: They ask me that on stage. Have you ever been to a strip bar?
Portugal: No, I’ve been near them.
Osthus: I’ve never felt degraded by men in there. I’ve never, ever felt harassed. We’re performers, like a ballerina is a performer. [For men who watch], I think it’s a form of release.
Portugal: OK, so the existence of porn is a cathartic release? OK, so that means that [if we had] a lot of porn, we wouldn’t have a lot of rapes, wouldn’t have a lot of sexual abuse. I mean, how do you rationalize the fact that there’s lots of porn [and] lots of rapes?
Osthus: Well, porn has never been linked to rapes. If you read recent studies, they all pretty much clear pornography. They say that rape is not an act of sexuality. It’s an act of violence.
Portugal: Look, I would totally approve of your life and all of your friends if I didn’t feel that it affected me in a way that I don’t want to be affected. I have to live in this country, too. I don’t have to live in this city, you know, and I probably won’t for very much longer, but I do have to interact with people. I have to have these experiences where I can’t wait for the bus by the side of the street without two guys in a truck driving by and shouting at me. I can’t walk home from my job at night when they make me work the late shift without some guy shouting at me from across the street, trying to scare me. I’ve had all this happen. Why? I feel that the existence of [strip bars and vending machines] leads men to view all women in these ways. I don’t think they make a distinction between me and you. If we’re walking down the street together, they wouldn’t be like, “Oh, she’s a stripper, I can say shit to her, and she’s not, so I’ll leave her alone.” They just see all women as things to be looked at.
Osthus: If you came into my club, that certainly wouldn’t happen to you. There’s boundaries that are respected in those places.
Portugal: I don’t understand why men feel like it’s easier to talk to naked women. You know what I mean, it’s some kind of a power thing.
Osthus: A lot of the traditional definitions of power don’t mean shit. It’s like, a lot of these guys who come in are heads of their companies. They have a lot of power, a lot of people work for them, but when they come to a strip club they have no more power than the Mexican at the rack [the stage-side seats].
Portugal: A friend was telling me that Henry Rollins, when he was on his speaking tour, basically said something to the effect of, “You think you’ve got all the power because you’re up on stage and everyone’s looking at you and that’s like feminine power, but what kind of power would you have if there was no bouncer or bodyguard and you were in a room naked with 40 men?”
Osthus: Human relations—sexuality—it permeates everything. You can’t hide from it. You can make yourself a victim of it by calling yourself a victim. And that’s where I think it’s gotta stop. I mean, feminism labels women “victims.” It does not empower them, it takes their power away by doing that.
WW: You both have lived a lot of different places. You’re both relatively new to Portland. You’ve got different views about the atmosphere here for women. Jill, one of the things you touched on in your letter was that Portland is not a very good place to live if you’re a woman, that there’s more objectification of women here than in other places, and that you feel less safe here.
Portugal: You know, I probably shouldn’t have said that. I don’t feel less safe here. I feel that the climate, in general, the fact that there’s such a proliferation of strip bars and vending machines, makes me feel less valued here as a person.
WW: Vending machines?
Portugal: The Exotic and T&A Times. They just really bother me. I called the OA’s office last week to see how that was legal, because there are laws in America that if you’re 18 or under you can’t buy porn. I don’t understand how vending machines, which don’t ask for I.D., could be legal. The DA went and researched it and basically said there’s all these little loopholes. If one of those vending machines was in my office lunchroom, I could sue for hostile environment. I feel like, if you extend that, then this is a hostile environment because I see three of those boxes on my way to work every day. I shouldn’t have to see that. I don’t want to.
WW: Do you feel like you are hassled more in Portland than other places you’ve lived?
Portugal: Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately, because I was hassled a lot over the summer, and it was making me tense. Then I started wearing a Walkman and I don’t look at anybody. I can’t stop anyone from looking at me. I can’t stop anyone from talking to me, but if I wear a Walkman I don’t have to hear them.
But a lot of the worst things that have happened to me happened in New York. I’ve had my ass grabbed in the middle of the street in the East Village. I’ve had people ask me if my breasts were real when I was trying to get a bus. I’ve been harassed like two steps away from my house in Providence, Rhode Island. I’ve been assaulted in Italy, but that’s Italy. I don’t know if I should count that. But basically I think the problem is that most men don’t understand that women don’t want it. They think that it’s a compliment. The way I feel is that if you get an ego boost out of some random guy telling you you have nice legs, you’ve got a self-esteem problem. Because I don’t need some random guy at the bus stop to make me feel good about myself. I do anyway.
Osthus: Do you turn around and tell them you’re offended?
Portugal: I tell people to fuck off. I spit at people.
Osthus: It happens everywhere around the world, and it’s only a certain type of men who do it, and I don’t think they’re necessarily attached to the porn industry.
Portugal: I mean, porn is not the only thing that I worry about, or I think about, or I care about. I’m worried about the self-esteem of young girls. I want to do something about that. I worry about sexual harassment in the schools, because that happened to me in high school and I didn’t do anything about it, because I didn’t know that I could, and I want more girls to know that they can do something about it. So I do have other issues. It’s not like I’m this anti-porn crusader.
Osthus: Here’s my personal anecdote: I didn’t even realize that women had hair on their vaginas until I saw a Hustler in my brother’s room. It was a part of my sex education. To my mind, porn glorifies and celebrates the body more than degrades it. And to me, Vogue magazine, where there are these bodiless heads, is much more offensive than a woman who’s got her legs spread. What is wrong with women enjoying themselves, enjoying sex?
Portugal: How do you know that they’re all enjoying themselves?
Osthus: It’s the idea that there’s something wrong with women enjoying sex. That the porn industry is degrading and sex is violent.
Portugal: This is going off on another tangent, but the whole thing about the women who work in the industry...I want to know why in America women are more valuable when they’re naked. Why do I make $6.50 an hour writing a news story and you make, what is it, $40 an hour?
Osthus: I do learn a lot more than I have at any other job. More than I did at Williams fucking College. What year did you graduate?
Portugal: ‘95. What year did you graduate?
Osthus: ‘96.
Portugal: You say that you’re not in it for the money—would you do it for minimum wage?
Osthus: Definitely I would.
Portugal: You would. So you really like what you’re doing, and if the money aspect was separated from it—if you’re making $4.50—you would still do it.
Osthus: I’d certainly rather do it than data entry. Those are a lot of the jobs that are available to people with liberal arts degrees.
Portugal: Do you have a degree?
Osthus: Anthropology.
Portugal: I have an English degree.
Osthus: Even more useless.
Portugal: Yeah.
WW: What is the typical response when people find out what you do?
Osthus: To people in my age group, a lot of them think it’s really cool. I go into Fellini and everyone’s like “Hi, how are you?” And adults, I try to be really open with them. A lot of them support what I’m doing. I try to explain to them that it’s an art form. It’s kind of an unusual thing for someone of my background to be doing.
WW: It’s interesting that you both have these very different viewpoints, and are acting out your views in different ways, yet both of your parents seem to wish you were a little bit more middle-of-the-road.
Osthus: A lawyer or doctor.
Portugal: Yeah.
WW: Why is that? Is it a generational thing?
Portugal: I think it’s just sort of a not-making-waves kind of thing. They’d like me to be a little more mainstream. You know, my mom considers herself a feminist, but I feel like she doesn’t think about these things because she lives in New Jersey, she lives in the suburbs, she has a car, and when she wants to go somewhere she just gets in the car and gets out—she doesn’t have to deal with what’s going on in America. She has a very insular lifestyle. When I talk to my parents about what I am doing, they’re just like, “Well, as long as you don’t let it affect your relationships with men...I guess it’ll be OK.” They asked me if I was a lesbian. I said, call my boyfriend and ask him. I don’t think they want me to be as extreme as I am. They’d rather me be a lawyer or something. They think that I should be doing something else with my time, but I don’t care. They’re just afraid I’m going to turn into Valerie Solanas.
Osthus: My parents want me to live a secure life and be happy. I’ve tried their version of happiness, and I’ve struggled a lot with my parents and their traditional notion of success. I’ve always tried to be the best at whatever it is I did, and I’ve always wanted to be an artist or a performer. I told them I was doing this because I’m very proud of what I do and want to express my ideas in a public forum, even though I’m still working on them. And I told them that I’m interested in the sociology of it and developing my art form. They’re very ashamed of it. Very frightened of what I’m doing. They want me to be safe and work 9 to 5 and be happy. My Dad was hurt when I told him. It was the only time he ever raised his voice at me. He said, “You’re making money off of other people’s lust.” A pastor thing to say.
WW: Will you look back on this part of your life without regret or embarrassment?
Osthus: I am awfully proud of it. I’m proud of doing it. It’s something I believe in. I’m open about it. I think that we’re making important sociological change, and I think I’m a hard-core feminist. My parents are of a different generation, and they often think I’m doing things the wrong way.
WW: Jill, you work for television, which many people think does far more to degrade and cast women as one-dimensional creatures than do strip bars.
Portugal: I just happen to have this job right now. It’s not like all my life I’ve wanted to be a TV person. I just got out of radio and got into this. I happen to like what I do, because I write and that hasn’t happened in a long time, and the people are nice to me and I get along with everybody.
Osthus: I feel like TV has much larger social ramifications than what I do.
Portugal: I’m not trying to say that you and your club are single-handedly responsible for all that’s wrong. A lot of things are involved. Yeah. I see those shows at work and I’d like to turn them off.
Osthus: That’s ironic. So, you’re prostituting yourself, which is what I’d call it.
Portugal: Well then, everyone in the country is a prostitute. What are you going to do?
Osthus: My job, I know where the dollar bills come from. It isn’t big business. We’re not raping Third World cultures and nations. And also, television has been linked to rape more than porn has.
Portugal: It seems like we both work at places that perpetuate stereotypes of women, although I don’t really make the big decisions at my place.
Osthus: Yeah, and I feel like I’m working toward a better stereotype. The guys coming in there are getting a lot more than a naked body when they come to see me, and if they don’t like it, too bad. The Portland strip scene is very pro-women and women’s rights. The women who do Danzine are working on needle-exchange programs, working to get women out of the streets. They are grass-roots activists all the way, and it’s really important to the community here to have [stripping] seen more as a form of expression, and at the same time. to use our time and our power and our knowledge to do good for other women.
Portugal: I’m just for whatever is the most good for the most people. More naked women on billboards or in strip clubs—I don’t understand how that’s good. I just want to get away from the idea of woman as hypersexualized—all she wants to do is fuck. That’s not why I‘m here. I‘m here for a lot of other reasons. | https://www.wweek.com/archive/2023/02/11/how-does-pornography-affect-the-lives-of-women-in-portland-two-feminists-with-opposing-viewpoints-talk-it-over/ | 2023-02-12 01:53:23 | 1 | https://www.wweek.com/archive/2023/02/11/how-does-pornography-affect-the-lives-of-women-in-portland-two-feminists-with-opposing-viewpoints-talk-it-over/ |
Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex was fined $24 million by U.S. authorities on Tuesday for helping clients evade U.S. sanctions in places such as Syria, Iran and Crimea.
It is the largest penalty ever levied against a crypto currency exchange by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the agency said.
The Treasury Department said that Bittrex allowed customers in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and the disputed region of Crimea to trade approximately $263.5 million worth of digital currencies between 2014 and 2017. In its statement, the U.S. said that Bittrex should have been aware these customers were in sanctioned parts of the world due to their physical addresses as well as their IP addresses.
In one case, a customer in Iran gave a physical address in Iran and uploaded an Iranian passport to verify identification.
“When virtual currency firms fail to implement effective sanctions compliance controls, including screening customers located in sanctioned jurisdictions, they can become a vehicle for illicit actors that threaten U.S. national security,” said OFAC Director Andrea Gacki in a statement.
The sanctions violations were quite extensive, with OFAC finding 116,421 apparent violations of U.S. sanctions programs over the three years. The company did not apparently have any internal controls in place for sanctions until October 2017.
Bittrex, which lists an address in downtown Seattle’s Columbia Center tower, said it was “pleased” to settle these charges with U.S. authorities, and noted that regulators were not asking for Bittrex to make any additional changes to its anti-money laundering systems, which had been updated after 2018. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/seattle-crypto-exchange-bittrex-faces-record-for-violating-u-s-sanctions/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-10-12 00:12:02 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/seattle-crypto-exchange-bittrex-faces-record-for-violating-u-s-sanctions/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Rodney Hawkins set out to uncover pieces of hidden history, starting with his own family.
“We have to be able to give flowers to our ancestors in some shape or form. But we can’t do that if we don’t know where they are,” said Hawkins.
A conversation with his great-grandmother changed the course of the next couple of years.
“And that was the spark of going down this rabbit hole of understanding our history and then realizing that we had a cemetery that was in disarray and needed to be restored,” he said.
It led Hawkins and his family deep into the Nacogdoches backwoods.
“I put out the call to family members to say, 'hey we’re going to do this' and they came from across the nation to help restore the cemetery,” he said.
Hawkins, a journalist, realized he wasn’t alone. Decedents of enslaved people across the United States have ancestors whose burial sites have been neglected, forgotten, and often paved over.
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“I’m very fortunate that our cemetery wasn’t at a place where we couldn’t bring it back,” he said. “But there are cemeteries, for example, that has a gas station on top of them where you would drive past it and wouldn’t even know.”
A series of stories and a serendipitous encounter with art gallery owner Daisha Board brought Hawkins to this moment. He is now the producer and creative director for an exhibition at the Daisha Board Gallery in Dallas.
It’s called "The Mount: A Photo Collection on Restoring America’s Buried Past." Images of his journey, captured by photographer Kwesi Yanful, expose Hawkins’ quest for the truth.
“To have an exhibition like this that’s so powerful in lineage, in history, in ancestry, we needed to show it,” Board said.
Board is known nationally for providing platforms for artists from various cultural backgrounds.
“For me to have a space that does not censor them, that gives them the freedom to express themselves in any way possible, that’s vital,” she said.
Board said over the Juneteenth holiday, people packed the gallery for what turned out to be a full-circle moment. A photo illustrating one of Hawkins’ ancestors purchasing assets as a free man 148 years ago on June 19 hangs on the gallery wall.
“He was buying cattle, property, some of which we own to this day,” Hawkins said.
“For some people it’s emotional,” Board said. “Some people resonate with the people in the images.”
Hawkins hopes his journey to uncover hidden, but significant history inspires others to do the same.
“We have to cherish those moments no matter how ugly or painful or shameful they may be. I’m proud of this,” he said. “I’m proud of where we came from.”
The cemetery Hawkins and his family uncovered is now recognized by the State of Texas as an historic landmark under the guidance of the Texas Historic Commission.
Hawkins’ family lineage was also a springboard for the "Lone Star Slavery Project," spearheaded by historian and researcher Kyle Ainsworth at Stephen F. Austin State University.
The Mount: A Photo Collection on Restoring America’s Buried Past can be seen at the Daisha Board Gallery through Saturday, July 9. For more information visit https://daishaboardgallery.com/ | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-art-exhibition-uncovers-hidden-history/3008549/ | 2022-07-07 16:48:51 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-art-exhibition-uncovers-hidden-history/3008549/ |
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) announced on Tuesday that he is endorsing former President Trump for the GOP nomination for president in 2024 following a meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Gooden said in a statement posted on his Twitter account that he made the decision after “careful consideration” and a “positive meeting” with DeSantis. He said he has respect for DeSantis and his accomplishments as governor but believes Trump is the best candidate based on his record and “commitment to putting America first.”
“I met with Governor DeSantis, and while he has done commendable work in Florida, there is no doubt in my mind that President Trump is the only leader who can save America from the leftist onslaught we are currently facing,” he said.
Gooden is the latest House Republican to endorse Trump for the Republican nomination. Florida GOP Rep. John Rutherford announced his endorsement of Trump on Tuesday.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) announced he was backing Trump on Monday.
Trump has racked up numerous endorsements from House and Senate Republicans despite being the first former president to be criminally charged.
“I wholeheartedly endorse President Donald J. Trump for the 2024 presidential election and vow to fight alongside him to reclaim our country from the leftist forces that threaten to destroy it. Together, we will ensure a prosperous and secure future for our great nation,” Gooden said.
Trump has also gathered several endorsements from Florida Republicans, claiming support from members of DeSantis’ own state party. They include Reps. Cory Mills, Anna Paulina Luna, Byron Donalds and Matt Gaetz.
DeSantis has not publicly addressed whether he is planning to run for president but has been widely rumored to be considering a run. He has also consistently placed in second to Trump in hypothetical Republican primary polls.
He has also scheduled trips to early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire recently. | https://www.fox16.com/hill-politics/texas-republican-endorses-trump-following-meeting-with-desantis/ | 2023-04-19 01:06:42 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/hill-politics/texas-republican-endorses-trump-following-meeting-with-desantis/ |
Skeletal remains of a 15-year-old girl found in Campbell County, Tennessee, in 1985 were identified as Lafayette resident Tracy Sue Walker according to a press release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Walker, who went missing from the Lafayette area in 1978, was found in the Big Wheel Gap area of Elk Valley in Tennessee, the release reads. The Big Wheel Gap area is a remote mountain range bordered by smaller towns.
Forensic anthropologists initially determined the remains were of a “white female, likely between the ages of 10 and 15,” but investigators couldn’t ID the victim, according to the press release.
For the next three decades, forensic investigators called the remains by the nickname “Baby Girl,” according to the press release.
It wasn't until 2007 when her remains were submitted to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification for a DNA profile developed, according to the press release. Her profile was later entered into the Combined DNA Index System and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
The case wasn’t reopened again until 2013 when a TBI agent began searching for new leads on the girl's identity. Nine years later in 2022, Othram, a private laboratory that analyzes human DNA, provided investigators with possible relatives of the victim living in Lafayette.
The victim’s relatives confirmed they had a relative go missing in 1978, and the remains were finally identified as Tracy Sue Walker.
The details of the case remain unsolved, according to the press release, and investigators are asking anyone with knowledge of how Walker could’ve ended up in Tennessee to contact their bureau at 1-800-TBI-FIND. | https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_ffad45d0-28a7-11ed-996e-1ff691b1f62a.html | 2022-08-31 16:32:32 | 1 | https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_ffad45d0-28a7-11ed-996e-1ff691b1f62a.html |
Walmart shipping $750,000 flood aid
Walmart Inc. is responding to the Kentucky communities affected by flooding last week by sending $750,000 in water, food, and funding to relief organizations.
The Bentonville-based retailer, its Sam's Club division and the Walmart Foundation are also helping provide critical services such as showers and laundry in its parking lots and nearby shelters.
Severe storms that brought flooding, landslides and mudslides to the state began July 26.
Since last week, the company said, more than 20 Walmart trucks have brought water and essential supplies to some of the hardest-hit communities, including the towns of Hazard and Jackson, Ky. And more trucks are on the way.
Walmart drivers prepare meals all day for residents and relief workers with contributions from suppliers Tyson Foods Inc. and Bimbo Bakeries. And people can have clean clothes thanks to P&G's Tide Loads of Hope, which brings laundry trucks to disaster areas.
To prevent diseases and infections such as tetanus and hepatitis that often break out after major floods, Walmart is offering vaccinations at four locations.
-- Serenah McKay
Tyson set to release 3Q results Monday
Tyson Foods Inc., the Springdale-based meat processing giant, is expected to release its third quarter earnings for fiscal 2022 on Monday morning. Top executives will also host a conference call in the morning to review the company's results.
A Zack's Consensus Estimate puts Tyson's earnings for the quarter ended June 30 at $1.91 per share with revenue estimated at $13.3 billion. For the same quarter last year, Tyson booked a profit of $2.70 a share on revenue of $12.48 billion.
The conference call with analysts to discuss third-quarter results starts at 8 a.m. The event will be webcast on Tyson's investor relations website at ir.tyson.com and the company will also offer an audio only conference call at 1-844-890-1795. A replay of the webcast will be available at Tyson's website and a telephone replay will be available until September 7 at 1-877-344-7529 with the access code 2596137.
Tyson shares closed at $87.45, up 8 cents or about 1% in trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares have traded as low as $70.50 and as high as $100.72 over the past year.
-- John Magsam
Closing at 795.67, state index up 5.37
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, closed Friday at 795.67, up 5.37.
Shares of Dillard's Inc. rose 5% for the week and shares of Home Bancshares, Inc. rose 1.2%. Murphy Oil Corp. shares fell 2.5% Friday and 7.2% for the week.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/06/news-in-brief/ | 2022-08-06 08:45:17 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/06/news-in-brief/ |
Recall issued for 56,000 COVID-19 antigen rapid tests
Published: Feb. 11, 2023 at 1:17 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Over 56,000 COVID-19 antigen tests have been recalled, according to Universal Meditech Inc.
The company issued a nationwide recall of the Skippack Medical Lab rapid test kits, saying they were distributed without appropriate clearance or approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The kits could potentially cause inaccurate test results.
The recalled products were manufactured from October 2021 to December 2021 and distributed in January 2022.
Consumers should stop using the devices immediately and contact the distributor for product return.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wkyt.com/2023/02/11/recall-issued-56000-covid-19-antigen-rapid-tests/ | 2023-02-11 07:34:43 | 1 | https://www.wkyt.com/2023/02/11/recall-issued-56000-covid-19-antigen-rapid-tests/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a little girl who received second-degree burns when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg as her mother pulled away from the drive-thru of a McDonald's restaurant.
Lawyers for the family of Olivia Caraballo, who was 4 when she was burned in 2019, were seeking $15 million in damages. Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating for less than two hours on Wednesday, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.
The jury's verdict form allotted $400,000 in damages for the past four years, and another $400,000 for the future from the McDonald's USA and its franchise operator, Upchurch Foods. A separate jury decided in May that the company and franchise owner were liable for the injury, which occurred outside a McDonald's in Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale.
“I’m actually just happy that they listened to Olivia’s voice and the jury was able to decide a fair judgment,” Olivia's mother, Philana Holmes, told reporters outside the courtroom. “I’m happy with that. I honestly had no expectations, so this is more than fair for me.”
She testified on Tuesday that Olivia, now 8, calls the scar on her inner thigh her “nugget” and is fixated on having it removed, the newspaper reported.
Lawyers for McDonald's argued that the child's discomfort ended when the wound healed, which they said took about three weeks. They contended that the girl's mother is the one who has the problem with the scar, and told jurors that $156,000 should cover damages, both past and future.
“She’s still going to McDonalds, she still asks to go to McDonald’s, she’s still driving through the drive-thru with her mom, getting chicken nuggets,” defense attorney Jennifer Miller said in her closing argument Wednesday. “She’s not bothered by the injury. This is all the mom.”
Defense attorneys declined to speak after the verdict.
Holmes testified that she had purchased Happy Meals for her son and daughter, who was sitting in the back seat, and was driving away when the nugget fell on the child's leg. She said that the girl screamed in pain, and when she pulled over in a parking lot, she realized the nugget was lodged between Oliva's thigh and the seat belt.
The mother testified that at no point did McDonald's warn her the food might be unusually hot. The company testified they follow food safety rules, which require McNuggets to be hot enough to avoid salmonella poisoning, and that what happens with the food once it leaves the drive-thru window is beyond their control.
While both sides agreed during the trial in May that the nugget caused the burns, the family’s lawyers argued the temperature was above 200 degrees (93 Celsius), while the defense said it was no more than 160 degrees (71 Celsius).
Photos the mother took of the burn and sound clips of the child's screams were played in court.
The case may stoke memories of the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit of the 1990s, which became an urban legend of sorts about seemingly frivolous lawsuits, even though a jury and judge had found it anything but.
A New Mexico jury awarded Stella Liebeck, 81, $2.7 million in punitive damages after she was scalded in 1992 by hot coffee from McDonald’s that spilled onto her lap, burning her legs, groin and buttocks, as she tried to steady the cup with her legs while prying the lid off to add cream outside a drive-thru.
She suffered third-degree burns and spent more than a week in the hospital.
She had initially asked McDonald’s for $20,000 to cover hospital expenses, but the company went to trial. A judge later reduced the $2.7 million award to $480,000, which he said was appropriate for the “willful, wanton, reckless” and “callous” behavior by McDonald’s. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/mcdonalds-chicken-nugget-lawsuit-jury-awards-girl-800k-damages/507-1fac7b5e-7813-4b5e-9cca-ff59539fea7e | 2023-07-21 00:01:11 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/mcdonalds-chicken-nugget-lawsuit-jury-awards-girl-800k-damages/507-1fac7b5e-7813-4b5e-9cca-ff59539fea7e |
we stand in our faith and we stand in what we know is right and you know, we you know, we are being fortunate to have the council that we have and you know, our family will stick together and we'll walk this road because we know that the door will hold our hand and take us through. That was reality Tv star Todd Chrisley speaking to the media after pleading not guilty to tax evasion, Todd and his wife julie Chrisley appeared in court and pleaded not guilty on Wednesday hours after turning themselves in for indictments of tax evasion and other financial crimes. The couple famous for their reality Tv show, Chrisley knows best, were handed *** 12 count indictment that spans nine years of alleged financial crimes. According to WsB t tv Atlanta. They walked into the courtroom shackled but walked out vowing to fight *** judge set an unsecured bond of $100,000 each. With travel restrictions. Todd and julie are allowed to visit California for taping up their reality show, as long as they notify probation officers in *** statement to people on Wednesday, the family's attorneys, Bruce. H Morris and steven Freiberg said for quite some time now, the U. S. Attorney's office for the Northern district of George has been conducting an investigation of Todd and julie Chrisley based for the most part on the demonstrably false allegations of *** former officer of *** company they owned jointly. We saw the results of this effort yesterday, an indictment against Todd julie and their accountant that relies largely if not entirely on emails that we know Todd never sent, but rather were fabricated. That was their statement, and the attorneys added that the government had granted the former employee immunity from prosecution to bring an indictment against the Chrisley. The indictment obtained by people alleges that the crystals participated in tax evasion, wire fraud and conspiracy bank fraud. Prosecutors also claimed the crystals also use their production company Seven C. Production, to hide their reality tv income from the I. R. S. And alleged that Todd directed an employee to falsify income and asset documents.
Todd and Julie Chrisley report to federal prisons to begin sentences
Updated: 3:28 PM EST Jan 17, 2023
Related video above: Todd and Julie Chrisley plead not guilty to tax evasionReality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are now in the custody of federal prison officials, according to their attorney Alex Little.The couple, who was sentenced in November to prison for fraud and tax crimes, reported to their assigned prisons in Florida and Kentucky before the deadline on Tuesday, which was noon local time, Little told CNN.Todd Chrisley is serving 12 years at FPC Pensacola, a minimum-security facility in Pensacola, Florida.Julie Chrisley is serving her seven-year sentence at FMC Lexington, Kentucky, which is described as an "administrative security federal medical center with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp" on the prison's website.The Chrisleys, known for their reality program "Chrisley Knows Best," were found guilty in June in a Georgia court for conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.The couple and their accountant were also convicted of several tax crimes, including attempting to defraud the IRS and evade collection of delinquent taxes, according to the Department of Justice.The Chrisleys maintain their innocence and are appealing their cases."Chrisley Knows Best" debuted in 2014 on the USA Network. A shortened tenth season is scheduled to air sometime this year.
Related video above: Todd and Julie Chrisley plead not guilty to tax evasion
Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are now in the custody of federal prison officials, according to their attorney Alex Little.
The couple, who was sentenced in November to prison for fraud and tax crimes, reported to their assigned prisons in Florida and Kentucky before the deadline on Tuesday, which was noon local time, Little told CNN.
Todd Chrisley is serving 12 years at FPC Pensacola, a minimum-security facility in Pensacola, Florida.
Julie Chrisley is serving her seven-year sentence at FMC Lexington, Kentucky, which is described as an "administrative security federal medical center with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp" on the prison's website.
The Chrisleys, known for their reality program "Chrisley Knows Best," were found guilty in June in a Georgia court for conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
The couple and their accountant were also convicted of several tax crimes, including attempting to defraud the IRS and evade collection of delinquent taxes, according to the Department of Justice.
The Chrisleys maintain their innocence and are appealing their cases.
"Chrisley Knows Best" debuted in 2014 on the USA Network. A shortened tenth season is scheduled to air sometime this year. | https://www.wtae.com/article/todd-and-julie-chrisley-report-to-federal-prisons/42539047 | 2023-01-17 21:12:36 | 1 | https://www.wtae.com/article/todd-and-julie-chrisley-report-to-federal-prisons/42539047 |
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve was spreading rapidly amid erratic winds, while firefighters reported progress against another major blaze to the southwest that prompted evacuations.
The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley.
Wind-driven flames 20 feet (6 meters) high in some spots charred more than 110 square miles (284 square kilometers) of desert scrub, juniper and Joshua tree woodland, according to an incident update. There was zero containment.
“The dry fuel acts as a ready ignition source, and when paired with those weather conditions it resulted in long-distance fire run and high flames, leading to extreme fire behavior,” the update said. No structures were threatened.
To the southwest, the Bonny Fire was holding steady at about 3.4 square miles (8.8 square kilometers) in rugged hills of Riverside County. More than 1,300 people were ordered to evacuate their homes Saturday near the community of Aguanga that is home to horse ranches and wineries.
Gusty winds and the chance of thunderstorms into Monday will heighten the risk of renewed growth, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in a statement.
One firefighter was injured in the blaze, which was 5% contained. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-erratic-winds-challenge-firefighters-battling-two-major-california-blazes/ | 2023-07-31 03:10:43 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-erratic-winds-challenge-firefighters-battling-two-major-california-blazes/ |
EUGENE, Ore. — It takes speed to win some of these medals at world championships.
Speed to hand all of them out, too. A little bit of jumping ability doesn’t hurt, either.
In a new twist at track and field’s biggest event this side of the Olympics, athletes no longer have to wait to receive their prizes. The medals are waiting trackside and, once gold, silver and bronze are decided, presenters position themselves to hang them around their rightful winners’ necks, sometimes while they’re still on the run.
One caveat: They need them back.
These “instant medals” are purely placeholders for athletes to enjoy on their celebration lap. The take-home ones, engraved with their names, get presented in a ceremony later on.
“It’s surreal,” said British runner Laura Muir, who earned a bronze medal in the 1,500 meters, “because one minute you’re not even across the line and the next minute you have the medal around your neck.”
All part of the plan from Niels de Vos, the executive director of Oregon22. He remembered watching an athlete win at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and receive his medal the next day in a nearly empty stadium.
“From an athlete’s perspective, it’s like, ‘But my friends and family are here today. They haven’t got a ticket tomorrow,’” de Vos explained. “Everybody likes this.”
It’s not as easy as it might seem. Through prep work, event officials know approximately where someone will end up once a race or field event concludes.
Then, they spring into action.
Like when 6-foot-3 sprinter Fred Kerley won the 100 meters last weekend and took off down the curve of the track. There, waiting for him, was a much shorter presenter, Cherry Alexander. She reached high into the air to get the medal on Kerley.
The moment turned into a meme on social media.
Sometimes, the suddenness of receiving a medal takes an athlete by surprise. It did with high jump champion Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar.
“I was thinking, ‘What are they doing?’” Barshim said. “I was like, ‘I thought we did a ceremony? No, I want a ceremony!’”
Then, he handed it back. His permanent one wasn’t far behind.
In less time than it takes an 800-meter runner to finish, a medal can be engraved.
The precise time: 68 seconds.
There’s a 3D printing machine — four are used on heavy medal days — located in a room underneath the seats at Hayward Field. There will be around 252 medals engraved and presented to athletes at the podium ceremony.
Scantling gets ban: American decathlon champion Garrett Scantling is not at the world championships this week in the wake of a ban for missed doping tests.
Scantling, who finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics last year, was left off the 151-person American team when it was announced earlier this month; the fourth-place finisher at this year’s nationals, Steven Bastien, was on the team. No reason was given at the time.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released news that Scantling was serving a provisional suspension that began Thursday — opening day for the decathlon —for a potential tampering violation that “stems from Scantling’s conduct during an investigation into his third potential whereabouts failure.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Athletes-receiving-medals-faster-than-ever-at-17321432.php | 2022-07-22 04:00:52 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Athletes-receiving-medals-faster-than-ever-at-17321432.php |
Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) on Sunday said Rep. Liz Cheney’s defeat in her Wyoming Republican primary battle against a Trump-backed opponent last week reveals a “massive disconnect” between what Americans want and what politicians prioritize while in office.
Barr told NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd that Republicans are no longer concerned about the 2020 election or what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, which was evident in Cheney’s primary results.
“These congressional seats do not belong to politicians in Washington,” Barr said. “These seats belong to the American people. And there is a massive, massive disconnect between the priorities of politicians in Washington and the concerns of the American people.”
Cheney (R-Wyo.), who voted to impeach former President Trump and is one of only two Republicans serving on the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the Capitol, was defeat by double-digit percentage points last Tuesday by Harriet Hageman, who has endorsed Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Despite the loss, Cheney has remained spirited and adamant that her most important job as an elected official has been to highlight Trump’s role in the attack on the Capitiol and his false claims the election was stolen. She remains committed to countering Trump’s influence in the GOP and is even potentially considering a run for the White House.
Still, Trump retains a tight grip on the Republican party, with many of his candidates winning primaries this year and a majority of his GOP opponents either retiring or losing key primary battles.
Republicans continue to hold a favorable view of Trump while sixty-nine percent of the nation has said the country should move on from the Capitol attack.
Barr on Sunday said heading into the midterm elections, Republicans are going to pick up seats because they are “laser focused on what the American people actually care about.”
“They’re talking about not being able to afford putting food on the table, putting gas in their trucks, ” he said. “That’s what the American people care about. And politicians who obsess about the past are not in touch with the American people.” | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/gop-lawmaker-says-cheneys-primary-loss-reveals-massive-disconnect-between-politicians-and-americans/ | 2022-08-22 00:07:10 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/gop-lawmaker-says-cheneys-primary-loss-reveals-massive-disconnect-between-politicians-and-americans/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa — A bicyclist was seriously injured early Sunday morning after being hit by a car.
At approximately 2:45 a.m. Des Moines Police Department officers and Des Moines Fire Department rescue personnel responded to a report of a bicycle vs. car crash in the 2500 block of Hubbell Ave.
When first responders arrived they found an adult male bicyclist with serious injuries. The bicyclist remains hospitalized in critical condition.
The police department said preliminary evidence at the scene suggests a passenger car operated by a 24-year-old Des Moines resident was traveling southbound on Hubbell Ave. when they collided with a bicyclist traveling southbound in the curb lane, the police department said.
According to the police department, the driver of the vehicle showed signs of impairment. The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending. Other factors that may have led to the crash include unsafe passing and a lack of lighting equipment on the bicycle, the police said.
The Des Moines Police Department reminds drivers that if alcohol is a part of your Labor Day weekend celebrations to plan for a safe and sober ride home. | https://who13.com/news/bicyclist-seriously-injured-in-des-moines-crash/ | 2022-09-04 20:05:01 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/bicyclist-seriously-injured-in-des-moines-crash/ |
High Wind Warning issued March 13 at 3:39AM PDT until March 15 at 5:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA
* WHAT…Southerly winds 20 to 40 mph with gusts 50 mph in the
valleys. Gusts 55 to 70 mph immediate coastline and hills
above 1000 feet.
* WHERE…San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast.
* WHEN…From 11 PM Monday to 5 AM PDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS…Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Widespread power outages are expected and roadways could be
blocked by downed trees. Travel will be difficult, especially
for high profile vehicles.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Southerly winds will quickly increase
during the overnight hours of Monday into early Tuesday
morning as the first slug of energy arrives with the
atmospheric river. Winds may ease slightly for a time on
Tuesday then turn southwest as strong surface low pressure
passes over the region. Expect downed trees and limbs to lead
to renewed power outages across the region.
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
you must drive. | https://kion546.com/weather-authority/alerts-weather-authority/2023/03/13/high-wind-warning-issued-march-13-at-339am-pdt-until-march-15-at-500am-pdt-by-nws-san-francisco-ca/ | 2023-03-13 12:54:56 | 0 | https://kion546.com/weather-authority/alerts-weather-authority/2023/03/13/high-wind-warning-issued-march-13-at-339am-pdt-until-march-15-at-500am-pdt-by-nws-san-francisco-ca/ |
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022
- Global disaster relief org. deploys emergency team
- 33 million people affected by devastating floods in Pakistan – 15% of the population. More than 1 million are displaced from their homes.
- Flash floods have ripped through large parts of the country, taking people's homes and livelihoods
- The organization's largest response to flooding was in Pakistan in 2010
- ShelterBox has responded to at least 75 flood disasters
/PRNewswire/ --Global disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA announced today it is deploying an emergency team to Pakistan to respond to devastating flooding and determine what aid it will provide.
ShelterBox, which provides emergency shelter and other essential items following disasters and during prolonged conflicts, will also launch an emergency fundraising appeal.
"ShelterBox's mission is to ensure no one goes without shelter after disaster, and our team in Pakistan will assess which communities are most in need, and how we can best meet the emergency shelter needs."
More than 33 million people across Pakistan have been affected by the flooding, and more than 1,100 people have died as homes have been sunk or been swept away.
The ShelterBox team aims to be on the ground in Pakistan this week to work with local partners -- including local Rotary districts – to assess shelter and other humanitarian needs and map a response. The team will focus on the hardest hit areas first, including Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Balochistan.
ShelterBox has aid items prepositioned in the region.
"The flood waters are fast and lethal, and they do not discriminate. They are sweeping away anything in their path including people, homes, and livelihoods," said Haroon Altaf, ShelterBox Regional Director for Asia. "When there is so little dry land, and entire communities cut off, the logistics of getting shelter aid to the people in greatest need presents a complicated challenge."
Of Pakistan's 160 districts, 116 have been affected by the flooding. Sixty-six have official declared a "calamity" as waterways that feed the Indus River that runs through the country have burst through their banks. Nearly half a million people have crowded into relief camps after losing their homes.
More monsoon storms are forecasted later this month.
ShelterBox has responded to flooding in Pakistan previously, including a 2010 response that served thousands. It also has significant experience responding to flood disasters, deploying aid to at least 75 since it was founded in 2000. It has also responded to flooding in Sri Lanka, Paraguay, Kenya, Malawi and Peru.
For more information, please visit ShelterBoxUSA.org.
- Murray, ShelterBox CEO Sanj Srikanthan, and other ShelterBox staff available for interviews, including from Pakistan when they arrive.
- Archive images and b-roll from ShelterBox's 2010 response in Pakistan available at the link provided. More available upon request..
ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and other essential items to families who have lost their homes to disasters or conflict. In April 2021, ShelterBox surpassed providing support to two million people since 2000, responding to more than 300 disasters in nearly 100 countries. ShelterBox responds urgently to earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis, or conflict by delivering boxes of essential shelter, aid, and other life-saving supplies. Each iconic green ShelterBox contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, a water filtration system, emergency lighting, and other tools for survival. The organization was nominated for a distinguished Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 and 2019. ShelterBox USA is based in Santa Barbara, California.
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The Second Nuclear Era™ is here as Curio aims to Close the Cycle™ of nuclear waste
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curio, a nuclear innovation and technology development company, today announced that Melanie White has been appointed director of communications. White will lead the development, advancement, and execution of the company's communications strategy.
White has over 20 years' experience working to develop and implement effective public relations and strategic communications surrounding nuclear energy. Her time at the Nuclear Energy Institute saw her advocating for traditional nuclear power plants, segueing into her work on advanced nuclear reactors at X-energy. White also served as a communications consultant to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign - TULSI 2020.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to advance Curio's forward-thinking vision for nuclear waste recycling," White said. "My work in nuclear energy has shown me the need for a holistic vision for nuclear, a space where Curio is leading the way."
"Melanie has established herself as a communicator with a deep understanding of nuclear energy," said Curio Chief Executive Officer Ed McGinnis. "We look forward to Melanie leading our communications efforts to advance our company's dedication to solving the most pressing hurdles facing nuclear power."
Curio's mission is to develop nuclear technologies for the purpose of meeting our climate change priorities, re-establishing U.S. global nuclear energy leadership, and ensuring U.S. energy security.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Melanie White
mwhite@curiolegacy.com
202.557.9700
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Premier Truck Rental (PTR), a nationwide custom truck and utility trailer company, welcomes Brandon Fehn as the new Michiana Territory Manager, serving customers across Michigan and Indiana.
Fehn has 12+ years in the automotive and equipment rental industry, working at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and MacAllister Machinery before starting at Premier Truck Rental in November of 2022. As PTR's Michiana Territory Manager, Fehn will be focusing on new business development in this region and growing existing customer relationships across the two states.
"PTR's customers have important work to do, and it impacts the lives of so many people. It's fulfilling to rejoin the rental industry and contribute to these initiatives," says Fehn. "High-quality units, custom upfits, dependability, and dedication – it's what PTR does and what I strive to bring to our customers in the Michiana region. I'm eager to build, serve and grow relationships with my peers in the months and years to come."
Andy DeLaGarza, PTR's current Midwest Territory Manager, will be transitioning to the Upper Midwest Territory Manager, assisting customers with their rental fleet needs, and supporting infrastructure in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Brandie Cotton, VP of Sales at PTR, said, "We're so fortunate to have Brandon on our sales team as our Michiana Territory Manager. His experience in the Midwest rental industry will serve his customers well, and we look forward to the new opportunities Brandon creates."
Fehn will be based out of the Fort Wayne HQ.
Our job at Premier Truck Rental (PTR) is to give you the type of rental equipment you need, whenever you need it, and to make the rental process as easy and seamless as possible. We work with you on making sure that you have the best units for your job and industry, providing you with truck, trailer, and equipment rentals that can be upfit specifically for the demands and requirements of your projects. We are family-owned and operated with over 30 years of equipment rental experience. Serving customers nationwide, PTR has custom units for you to add to your fleet to kickstart your next commercial construction project. Learn more at rentptr.com.
CONTACT
Kylie Phillips, Digital Marketing Specialist
Premier Truck Rental (PTR)
Phone: 260-222-9835
Email: kylie.phillips@rentptr.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 11, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in TUYA:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/tuya-class-action-submission-form?id=31048&from=4
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Tuya Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Tuya you have until October 11, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Tuya securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the TUYA lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/tuya-class-action-submission-form?id=31048&from=4.
ABOUT KLEIN LAW FIRM
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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It’s graduation season, which means a lot of teenagers are thinking about their futures after high school. We recently traveled to Wichita, Kansas,for a community conversation on the future of higher education there, and around the country.
Colleges nationwide are facing budget shortfalls. Programs in the humanities and sciences are some of the first to face cuts. In Kansas, higher education funding declined by nearly 23 percent from 2008 to 2018.
Some rural universities, including Emporia State University in Kansas, are letting go of tenured professors and cutting back degree options, citing declining enrollment.
As universities cut back on programs and college price tags rise for students, should schools focus on projected salaries and job skills, or something more?
This conversation was recorded in May as part of our Remaking America collaboration with six public radio stations around the country, including KMUW. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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(NEXSTAR) – United Airlines is cutting a dozen routes from its network partly due to reduced demand, a spokesperson for the carrier indicated.
The cuts, first reported by The Points Guy, primarily affect travelers departing from Los Angeles and San Francisco, as United is cutting four routes from each of the two air hubs.
The 12 routes being dropped from United’s schedule are:
- Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Colorado Springs Airport
- LAX to Dane County Regional Airport (Madison, Wisconsin)
- LAX to Eugene Airport (Oregon)
- LAX to Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport (Oregon)
- San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
- SFO to St. Louis Lambert International Airport
- SFO to Will Rogers World Airport (Oklahoma City)
- SFO to Dane County Regional Airport
- Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) to Santa Barbara Airport (California)
- ORD to Eugene Airport
- George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston) to Edmonton International Airport (Alberta, Canada)
- Newark Liberty International Airport (New Jersey) to Northwest Arkansas National Airport
When asked to comment for the cuts, a spokesperson for United Airlines indicated that decreased demand was the reason for the change. She said, however, that United plans to resume “most” of the routes at some point.
“We regularly adjust our schedule for a variety of reasons, including demand and the broader needs of our network,” the spokesperson wrote in an email shared with Nexstar. “These are primarily seasonal changes and we plan to resume most of these routes at a future time.”
News of United’s plan to cut 12 of its routes comes amid reports of a pilot shortage affecting the airline industry. United CEO Scott Kirby had hinted at staffing issues as a result of a pilot shortage since at least the summer of 2021, when remarked on an episode of “Axios on HBO” that “the military produces far fewer pilots today than they did … in the Cold War era,” The Hill reported at the time.
More recently, Kirby told investors that the airline industry could be suffering for years as a result of too few pilots.
“The pilot shortage for the industry is real, and most airlines are simply not going to be able to realize their capacity plans because there simply aren’t enough pilots, at least not for the next five-plus years,” Kirby said in the spring of 2022, NewsNation reported.
United’s spokesperson did not indicate when United planned to resume any of the 12 affected routes, or which ones could be returning. The Points Guy, however, reported that United still serves all of the affected destination airports (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, St. Louis Lambert International Airport, etc.) from other hubs. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/united-airlines-cutting-12-routes-from-several-major-air-hubs/ | 2022-10-01 19:19:21 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/united-airlines-cutting-12-routes-from-several-major-air-hubs/ |
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers never made it past warmups in his first New York Jets practice in front of the media.
The 39-year-old quarterback, acquired last month from Green Bay, strained a calf while participating in conditioning drills Tuesday. Rodgers watched quarterback drills and remained on the field during practice, but was without his helmet and threw no passes.
“I don’t think it’s too serious,” Rodgers said, downplaying the injury and saying he took “a vet day.”
He didn’t have a noticeable limp, but stretched his lower legs and ankles several times throughout the practice. Rodgers, who wasn’t wearing a wrap on either calf while he stood at the podium and spoke to reporters, was uncertain when the injury occurred.
“I dunno,” he said with a smile. “Just running, I guess.”
Organized team activities began Monday and Rodgers participated in practice, with the Jets tweeting photos and videos of the quarterback throwing passes. The session Tuesday marked the first with media in attendance, and a few dozen reporters showed up to watch Rodgers practice with the Jets for the first time.
That will have to wait until next Wednesday at the earliest, when practice is next open to the media.
New York acquired Rodgers, the No. 15 overall pick and a fifth-rounder in this year’s draft from Green Bay on April 26. In exchange, the Packers got the 13th overall selection, a second-rounder, a sixth-rounder and a conditional 2024 second-round pick that could become a first-rounder if Rodgers plays 65% of New York’s plays this season.
The four-time NFL MVP spent his first 18 seasons in Green Bay and contemplated retirement before going on a darkness retreat in Oregon in February. Rodgers emerged wanting to continue to play — and chose to do so with the Jets. That set in motion the deal to New York.
Since the trade, Rodgers has experienced several moments that have reaffirmed his decision.
“It was surreal, for sure, and strange to look at my locker and see the No. 8, and to be rocking Jets gear is a little bit strange, for sure,” he said. “But every day, there’s been something that’s kind of been a little special sign or a synchronicity or just a cool moment that reminds me that I’m in the right place.”
Rodgers has participated in voluntary workouts and practices with his new teammates, something he didn’t consistently do the past three offseasons in Green Bay.
“He’s still a kid in an old man’s body,” coach Robert Saleh joked. “He’s having a blast.”
With the Jets, Rodgers is reunited with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, who led the Packers’ offense during the quarterback’s last two MVP seasons in 2020 and 2021. There are also several other familiar faces on the field with Rodgers, including wide receivers Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb and offensive lineman Billy Turner. But Rodgers is also building a rapport with many new players and helping Hackett install the offense.
“I really wanted to be around, at least for some of the beginning things, to just let them know kind of how I like to do things,” Rodgers said. “Some of the code words, some of the little adjustments, some of the ways I see the game — just sparking the conversation.”
Rodgers’ presence has fired up many of his new teammates, who acknowledged being a bit starstruck when the quarterback first arrived.
“It’s lit, man,” cornerback D.J. Reed said of the energy around the team.
Saleh has particularly enjoyed watching Rodgers work and interact with the players and coaches.
“It’s been cool,” Saleh said. “I joke around that he’s closer to a coach than he is a player at this point of his career. He’s a fantastic mind, he’s a fantastic conversation. It’s been all positive.”
While the work on the field and in meetings has been good, Rodgers appreciates the “freedom of expression” Saleh allows players to have, balancing fun and accountability.
Rodgers has also liked getting to know his new surroundings — from taking in Knicks and Rangers playoff games to learning where he can find the team’s mail room. He also joked the only things he previously knew about New Jersey were Teterboro Airport and the show “Jersey Shore.”
“I was assured that was not a proper representation of this great state,” a grinning Rodgers said before later adding: “I mean, it’s been like a dream month so far.”
NOTES: All-Pro DT Quinnen Williams isn’t participating in voluntary workouts while he awaits a contract extension. Saleh isn’t concerned it could turn into a lingering issue. “That thing will get done,” the coach said. … RB Breece Hall and OT Mekhi Becton, both returning from knee injuries last year, aren’t practicing yet. OL Alijah Vera-Tucker (torn triceps) is practicing. … Becton told Newsday he partly blamed the coaching staff for his season-ending knee injury last summer because they insisted he play right tackle instead of left — and that put extra pressure on his already surgically repaired right knee. Saleh took the high road, saying he didn’t want to get into finger pointing.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peak Rock Capital ("Peak Rock"), a leading middle-market private equity firm, is pleased to announce a number of promotions and new hires this summer, as the firm continues to expand the depth and experience of its Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate teams.
Meredith Jonker, Carrie Pisarczyk, and Reed Westerman have been promoted to Vice President, and will continue to play critical roles with their portfolio company relationships. Joe Garigliano and David Wolfish have been promoted to Principal within the Private Equity group. In their roles, Mr. Garigliano and Mr. Wolfish have successfully partnered with portfolio companies on value creation initiatives across the investment portfolio. Constantine Tujios has been promoted to Managing Director within the Real Estate group. Mr. Tujios has been involved in all aspects of the real estate investment process including sourcing, diligence and execution. Mr. Tujios has over 15 years of real estate experience investing in a broad variety of property and transaction types.
Kim Rose, John Scata, and Patricio (PJ) Torres have all joined the team as Directors. Kim's prior experience includes senior roles at JP Morgan Chase and Kendra Scott. John comes to Peak Rock with experience at MUFG Bank, as well as a 23-year career at the FBI. PJ's prior experience includes roles at Sixth Street Partners and PwC.
"I am incredibly proud of the organization we continue to build at Peak Rock. Our high-performance team has been a critical component of the success we have had to date." said Anthony DiSimone, Chief Executive Officer of Peak Rock. "We have a deep bench of exceptional and diverse talent, which will help us achieve our continued success," added Steve Martinez, President of Peak Rock.
ABOUT PEAK ROCK CAPITAL
Peak Rock Capital is a leading middle-market private investment firm that makes equity and debt investments in companies in North America and Europe. Peak Rock's equity investment platform focuses on opportunities where it can support senior management to drive rapid growth and performance improvement, with expertise in corporate carve-outs and partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital. Peak Rock's credit platform invests across capital structures, with a broad mandate to provide flexible, tailored capital solutions to middle-market and growth-oriented businesses. Peak Rock's real estate platform makes equity and debt investments in small to mid-sized real estate assets in attractive, growing geographies. For further information about Peak Rock Capital, please visit www.peakrockcapital.com.
Media Contact:
Daniel Yunger
Kekst CNC
(212) 521-4800
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Proceeds from the limited-edition swag will be donated to charity Bring on 2023 with a cozy and nostalgic merch collection that brings fashion and food to life
AUSTIN, Minn., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the makers of the SPAM® brand have launched a limited-edition merchandise collection with food and travel creators, Ewa and Jeromy Ko of Nom Life. Available while supplies last on SPAM.com, the new SPAM® Brand x Nom Life Collection includes five exclusive apparel and accessory items, all curated and co-designed with Nom Life.
The SPAM® family of products remain a beloved ingredient for home cooks, restaurateurs and leading culinary creators across the globe. Beyond the can, many fans enjoy wearing SPAM® brand merchandise and regularly request new items. That's why the SPAM® brand team partnered with Nom Life to create an exclusive and unique unisex collection inspired by the brand's traits of comfort, versatility and nostalgia. Each piece was selected to be a go-to, everyday item that's super soft, easily layered into your wardrobe and a fun add-on with retro vibes.
"Collaborating with the SPAM® brand team on this collection has been truly special for us. Jeromy and I grew up eating SPAM® products and have many memories of enjoying them with loved ones and finding creative ways to use them in dishes," said Ewa Ko of Nom Life. "Drawing inspiration from vintage concert tees and the heritage of the SPAM® brand designs, we're excited to have co-created this collection that feels nostalgically designed but created in modern fits and fabrics for classic, everyday pieces."
Combining Nom Life's connection to the SPAM® brand and love for fashion with the iconic history of the little blue can, this limited capsule allows fans, both old and new, to proudly display their SPAM® brand fandom.
Items in the SPAM® brand x Nom Life Collection include:
SPAM® Brand Concert Crewneck ($55.00): This is the essential crewneck. It's super soft and looks like you just scored it at a SPAM® brand concert. Featured artists include your favorite SPAM® varieties!
Make sure to have an extra one in your closet, because if someone borrows it, you won't get it back! Size up for an oversize fit.
SPAM® Varieties Everyday Concert Tote ($20.00): The versatile, do-it-all, SPAM® varieties bag. Big enough to throw all your essentials in but compact enough to take anywhere. From grocery shopping to the gym, this bag has you covered with ease, room and sturdy long handles.
SPAM® Classic Vintage Print T-shirt ($25.00): An easy, soft wash T-shirt to layer with anything and everything in your closet. And throw it back (literally) with a retro and iconic SPAM® brand can on the back. Size up for an oversize fit.
SPAM® Brand 'The Dad' Hat ($25.00): Available in two colors, this go-to baseball hat is a fashion accessory that shouldn't be overlooked.
"We're excited to introduce a first-ever collaborative merchandise collection with Nom Life that will let new and existing fans show off their SPAM® brand love with classic yet bold looks in 2023," said Jason Baskin, director of marketing for SPAM® brand. "And the best part about this collection is that all proceeds will go to Convoy of Hope, a long-time partner whose work is feeding communities around the globe in need every day."
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ABOUT NOM LIFE
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GetWireless added the Chief Marketing Officer role to implement its Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GetWireless has announced the promotion of Terra Bastolich to the position of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In this new capacity, Bastolich will oversee the company's brand, communication, and marketing strategies as well as lead Business Development and Carrier Relations; working cross-functionally with the GetWireless executive team to develop partnerships and sales strategies that enable continued company growth.
Since joining GetWireless in 2016, Bastolich has provided guidance and leadership to the growing Marketing, Carrier and Business Development teams. During that time, Bastolich was credited with a variety of important accomplishments, including successfully launched the company's first full-funnel brand campaign, the strategy, inception and growth associated with the Marketing services, "Activate where you buy" connectivity program, and other initiatives focused on bringing value to the GetWireless network of channel partners.
Bastolich brings over two decades of experience building and launching strategic marketing and sales strategies for top-tier IoT brands and channels. Prior to joining GetWireless, she held the role of Vice President of Sales, North America at NetComm Wireless (now Casa Systems of Sydney, Australia) and was responsible for sales, marketing and leadership driving new business in the US market of carrier branded products, and IoT deployments. Bastolich has a strong background in the IoT and connectivity space; having worked directly with key OEM's, carriers, distributors, manufacturers' representatives and channel partners.
According to Brian Taney, CEO and Co-founder, "GetWireless is very pleased to promote Terra and welcome her to the C-Suite at GetWireless. She has been instrumental in helping to develop and implement new growth strategies for sales, marketing and business development for the past five years." GetWireless promotes from within whenever possible, so their clients, vendors, and team members benefit from the knowledge and skills acquired over time, and ensures the best overall experience.
CONTACT: Terra Bastolich, CMO | tbastolich@getwirelessllc.com
Established in 2001 and based in Minneapolis, GetWireless is a leading Value-Added Distributor of cellular solutions that connect the Internet of Things. By supporting a strong portfolio of embedded modules, end-device modems, intelligent gateways, and cellular boosters, GetWireless is able to supply the most advantageous cellular solution for each new IoT application.
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SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The lack of enough workers is forcing the maquiladora industry in Tijuana to consider hiring minors to fill job openings at plants and factories throughout the region.
Obdulia Rodríguez, vice president of Tijuana’s Human Resources Association, said it’s time to “incorporate” 16- and 17-year-olds into the labor force.
She was referring to those who “don’t work or study.”
Rodríguez said this would also be a way to generate income for those who are trying to go to school but are in danger of dropping out due to the lack of financial support.
“We need this type of collaboration allowing them to be productive while drawing an income,” said Rodríguez. “They could also help support their families and it would reduce the crime rate since a lot of young people without work often fall into criminal activities due to the lack of job opportunities.”
According to Mexican law, minors who are employed can’t work more than six hours a day and those hours can’t be continuous, they have to be in 3-hour increments separated by a break.
“We are very respectful of the workers’ rights, we’re not looking for this to be problematic, we’re trying to figure out how to help these young people who may want to work while studying and perhaps they haven’t been offered an opportunity due to their age,” Rodríguez said.
Rodríguez said in the first quarter of 2023, the maquiladora industry went through a lack of a workforce.
She stated there are currently 14,000 job openings in factories throughout Tijuana not counting another 2,100 in businesses that provide support and resources for maquiladoras. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/with-lack-of-workers-maquiladora-industry-turns-its-attention-to-minors/ | 2023-06-12 23:05:14 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/with-lack-of-workers-maquiladora-industry-turns-its-attention-to-minors/ |
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday.
The job cuts come just a week after widespread layoffs at Twitter under its new owner, billionaire Elon Musk. There have been numerous job cuts at other tech companies that hired rapidly during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg as well said that he had made the decision to hire aggressively, anticipating rapid growth even after the pandemic ended.
“Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected,” Zuckerberg said in a prepared statement. “Not only has online commerce returned to prior trends, but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected. I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.”
Meta, like other social media companies, enjoyed a financial boost during the pandemic lockdown era because more people stayed home and scrolled on their phones and computers. But as the lockdowns ended and people started going outside again, revenue growth began to falter.
An economic slowdown and a grim outlook for online advertising — by far Meta’s biggest revenue source — have contributed to Meta's woes. This summer, Meta posted its first quarterly revenue decline in history, followed by another, bigger decline in the fall.
Some of the pain is company-specific, while some is tied to broader economic and technological forces.
Last week, Twitter laid off about half of its 7,500 employees, part of a chaotic overhaul as Musk took the helm. He tweeted that there was no choice but to cut the jobs “when the company is losing over $4M/day," though did not provide details about the losses.
Meta has worried investors by pouring over $10 billion a year into the “metaverse” as it shifts its focus away from social media. Zuckerberg predicts the metaverse, an immersive digital universe, will eventually replace smartphones as the primary way people use technology.
Meta and its advertisers are bracing for a potential recession. There’s also the challenge of Apple's privacy tools, which make it more difficult for social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Snap to track people without their consent and target ads to them.
Competition from TikTok is also an a growing threat as younger people flock to the video sharing app over Instagram, which Meta also owns.
“We’ve cut costs across our business, including scaling back budgets, reducing perks, and shrinking our real estate footprint," Zuckerberg said. ”We’re restructuring teams to increase our efficiency. But these measures alone won’t bring our expenses in line with our revenue growth, so I’ve also made the hard decision to let people go."
Zuckerberg told employees Wednesday that they will receive an email letting them know if they are among those being let go. Access to most company systems will be cut off for people losing their jobs, he said, due to the sensitive nature of that information.
“We’re keeping email addresses active throughout the day so everyone can say farewell,” Zuckerberg said.
Former employees will receive 16 weeks of base pay, plus two additional weeks for every year with the company, Zuckerberg said. Health insurance for those employees and their families will continue for six months.
Shares of Meta Platforms Inc. jumped 4% before the opening bell Wednesday. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/meta-layoffs-facebook-2022/507-27a803dd-0fc1-4510-9d9a-c239f0c069ce | 2022-11-09 12:39:53 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/meta-layoffs-facebook-2022/507-27a803dd-0fc1-4510-9d9a-c239f0c069ce |
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
The holidays are here, and millions of people are getting together with their loved ones this weekend. But they'll likely be joined by several uninvited guests - COVID, RSV, the flu and the old-school seasonal cold. Because is it a holiday without a surge of winter illnesses? For some guidance on how to stay healthy this holiday season, let's turn to Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House's COVID response coordinator. Thanks for joining me. Good morning.
ASHISH JHA: Good morning. Thanks for having me here.
FADEL: OK. So this weekend is going to be filled with people sitting around tables, eating, talking, laughing - basically a germ fest. So what advice do you have for people to both enjoy the holiday and be healthy?
JHA: Yeah. So first of all, it's obviously been a really difficult couple of years.
FADEL: Yeah.
JHA: Nice for people to be able to gather again safely. And the No. 1 thing that we can all do to make sure that we are gathering safely is being up to date on our vaccines.
FADEL: Yeah.
JHA: It really is. Both flu and COVID - we have terrific vaccines that have both been updated this year. And I understand for some people who may say, well, I'm gathering this weekend, is it too late? You know, still going out and getting it right now will mean that you'll start having some protection within about a week. And so that's No. 1. I think that's really important. You know, if you're gathering with somebody who's high risk, then taking a test for COVID before you gather can really make a difference, too. That's what we have done in our family - is when I gather with my elderly parents, just making sure no one's bringing along that uninvited guest. And then last but not least, certainly if people - somebody gets - ends up getting infected, making sure they get treated; Paxlovid for COVID, Tamiflu for influenza. We really have effective treatments. If we do these things, gathering safely becomes much more possible.
FADEL: Let's talk about Tamiflu and Paxlovid. I mean, the administration announced it's releasing more of the antiviral drug, Tamiflu, from the national stockpile. Paxlovid, is that widely available now for those under 50?
JHA: Yeah. So first of all, we have plenty of both of those drugs.
FADEL: OK.
JHA: We have plenty of Paxlovid. Tamiflu, we've got this in the Strategic National Stockpile. We're releasing them right now because there is an increased demand. I do believe anybody over 50 who gets infected with either of these two viruses should get treated. Under 50, the evidence that it's going to be beneficial is just not as good, partly because people under 50 are at lower risk. Obviously, if you're under 50 and have chronic conditions, then that changes the ballgame.
FADEL: Yeah.
JHA: But certainly, anyone over 50 should absolutely get considered for treatment.
FADEL: You mentioned get vaccinated, but the vaccination rate for the booster is incredibly low - I think about 15% at this point. I mean, is there anything you're doing to get people out there and get vaccinated?
JHA: Yeah. So we've - you know, we've taken a multi-prong strategy here, right? And first, it begins with just making it widely available. So it is everywhere. You can get it at CVS, Walgreens, your doctor's office.
FADEL: But does it matter...
JHA: Lots and lots of places.
FADEL: ...If people aren't getting it?
JHA: Yeah, the second is trying to communicate to people the importance of this. You know, I think part of it is it's been a long pandemic. A lot of people think, well, I got my vaccines last year. Do I really need it?
FADEL: Yeah.
JHA: Reminding people I don't count on my last year's flu vaccine to get me through this winter. It's the same thing with COVID. You can't rely on your booster from six months or nine months ago to get you through COVID this winter, given that the virus that's circulating is so different. So, you know, and the last thing, Leila, is that we're really starting to work much more closely with trusted messengers, religious leaders, political, social leaders, having them really carry the message because it really is a shared responsibility to get Americans vaccinated this winter.
FADEL: In the few seconds we have left, I mean, we got some pretty upsetting news this week from the CDC. Americans' life expectancy has dropped for the second year in a row, partly due to COVID but also drug overdoses. Your reaction to that?
JHA: Yeah, I mean, again, I start with where I began earlier, which is it's been a very difficult two years for Americans. In the first year, we - I think I would argue that in 2020, we really botched the pandemic response. We're now at a point where these deaths are becoming unnecessary. If people stayed up to date on their vaccines and got treated, no one really needs to die. So we can do better here.
FADEL: Dr. Ashish Jha, thank you so much for your time. Happy holidays.
JHA: Thank you. Happy holidays. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.kanw.com/2022-12-23/the-winter-holidays-are-once-again-colliding-with-a-surge-in-illnesses | 2023-01-18 04:13:41 | 0 | https://www.kanw.com/2022-12-23/the-winter-holidays-are-once-again-colliding-with-a-surge-in-illnesses |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Through seven hearings this summer, the House Jan. 6 panel has maintained two consistent themes: Donald Trump’s stubborn resistance to advisers who told him that Joe Biden won the election, and the former president’s role in inciting the Capitol insurrection.
Each hearing has had a separate focus — this week’s was domestic extremism — but the nine-member panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack has not strayed from its central findings: that Trump made historically unprecedented moves to overturn his 2020 election defeat and then turned a blind eye as his supporters beat police and broke into the Capitol to defend him.
A rundown of what we’ve learned so far from the public hearings of the select Jan. 6 committee — and what’s next:
TRUMP IGNORED HIS ADVISERS
At every hearing, the panel has played video testimony from White House aides and Trump associates who said they told Trump that Biden won the election and advised him to drop his false claims of widespread voter fraud. Many were emboldened by former Attorney General Bill Barr’s declaration in early December 2020 that there was no evidence of mass fraud that could change the election outcome.
Among those aides was Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, who told the panel that she accepted Barr’s conclusions. Eugene Scalia, Trump’s labor secretary, said he told Trump it was time for him to say Biden had won after states certified the electors on Dec. 14. Barr, who told Trump to his face that the fraud claims were “b——-t,” said he feared the president was becoming “detached from reality.”
But Trump ignored those advisers. Instead he listened to a small group of allies outside the White House who were pushing the fraud claims, sometimes in fantastical ways.
At Tuesday’s hearing, video testimony from White House lawyers described theories pushed by lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that they thought were “nuts,” including compromised voting machines and thermostats. A Dec. 18 meeting in the White House lasted for six hours and devolved into “screaming” and profanity, several participants said, as the two sides clashed over Trump’s next steps.
Trump’s White House counsel, Pat Cipollone told the committee in a videotaped interview that the lawyers kept asking Powell and Giuliani for evidence, but never received any good answers.
THE PRESIDENT’S CALLS TO ACTION
Rebuffed by many of those closest to him, Trump turned toward a much wider audience on social media. Hours after the Dec. 18 meeting, he tweeted that his supporters should come to a “big protest” on Jan. 6, when Congress would certify Biden’s win.
Trump tweeted: “Be there, will be wild!”
The committee showed a montage of videos and social media posts after the tweet as supporters reacted and planned trips to Washington, some of them using violent rhetoric and talking about killing police officers. Far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers mobilized their members to come to Washington and protest, and members of those groups descended on the Capitol before Trump had even finished his fiery speech outside the White House that morning.
At a hearing last month, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump knew that some of his supporters gathered for the event were armed because they had been turned away at security checkpoints. But she quoted Trump as directing his staff, in profane terms, to take away the metal-detecting magnetometers if their presence meant fewer people would be at the rally. He then took the stage and urged the entire crowd to march to the Capitol.
Stephen Ayres, who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, testified in person at Tuesday’s hearing. He talked about how he believed Trump’s lies as they were amplified on social media, and said he came to Washington at the behest of his president.
His arrest changed his life for the worse, Ayres said, and he’s angry he believed the claims of fraud.
A MISSED MARCH TO THE CAPITOL
The committee has focused in particular on Trump’s efforts to go to the Capitol with his supporters after his speech. Hutchinson said that many of Trump’s aides, and even House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, were aware of his plan and tried to stop it. She also described Trump’s anger as security officials refused to take him there after his speech.
On Tuesday, the committee revealed more evidence that Trump had planned to call for his supporters to march to the Capitol, and that he would go with them. The panel showed a draft tweet, undated and never sent, that said “Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the Steal!” The draft tweet was stamped, “president has seen.”
They also showed texts and email exchanges between planners and White House aides about a secret plan for the march.
“This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court” after Trump’s rally, wrote one of the rally’s organizers, Kylie Kremer, to a Trump confidant. “POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol.” People will try to “sabotage” it if they found out, she said.
PRESSURE TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION
The committee’s first few hearings focused on Trump’s pressure campaign to thwart Biden’s victory – aimed at state election officials, at the Justice Department and finally at Vice President Mike Pence. The president’s pressure ramped up as courts rejected dozens of lawsuits and after the states certified the electors in mid-December.
At a hearing with state officials, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, told of Trump’s phone call in which he asked him to “find 11,780 votes” that could give him a win. Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s GOP House speaker, testified about a call from Trump in which the president proposed that his chamber reject the slate of electors for Biden, who had won the state. Both Raffensperger and Bowers testified in person.
In a separate hearing, Justice Department officials described Trump’s effort to not only have them declare the election “corrupt” but to replace the acting attorney general with an ally of his in the department who sympathized with his false claims.
And Greg Jacob, a lawyer to Pence, testified about scheming within the White House to try and convince Pence to object to the results or delay the certification in his traditional ceremonial role presiding over the count. But Jacob said that as he and Pence reviewed the constitution, the law, “and frankly just common sense,” they confirmed that Pence did not have that authority.
On Jan. 6, hours after Trump’s supporters broke in and interrupted the proceedings, Pence declared Biden the winner.
WHAT’S NEXT
The committee is planning to hold its eighth hearing next week. That hearing is expected to feature the testimony of White House aides and center on what Trump was doing during the hours that his supporters were violently breaking into the Capitol.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee, said the hearing “will be a profound moment of reckoning for America.”
Once the hearings are over, the panel is expected to issue a final report. That could come before the November midterm election, said the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, in an interview on Tuesday.
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/jan-6-hearings-what-weve-learned-and-whats-next-4/ | 2022-07-14 20:29:35 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/jan-6-hearings-what-weve-learned-and-whats-next-4/ |
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